INSTALL: document requirement for libcurl 7.61.0

Our platform support policy states that we require "versions of
dependencies which are generally accepted as stable and supportable,
e.g., in line with the version used by other long-term-support
distributions".  Of Debian, Ubuntu, and RHEL, the three most common
distributions that provide LTS versions, the version with mainstream
long-term security support with the oldest libcurl is 7.61.0 in RHEL 8.

Update the documentation to state that this is the new base version for
libcurl.  Remove text that is no longer applicable to older versions.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
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brian m. carlson
2024-10-23 00:45:58 +00:00
committed by Taylor Blau
parent 603cf3e942
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@@ -129,17 +129,12 @@ Issues of note:
itself, e.g. Digest::MD5, File::Spec, File::Temp, Net::Domain,
Net::SMTP, and Time::HiRes.
- git-imap-send needs the OpenSSL library to talk IMAP over SSL if
you are using libcurl older than 7.34.0. Otherwise you can use
NO_OPENSSL without losing git-imap-send.
- "libcurl" library is used for fetching and pushing
repositories over http:// or https://, as well as by
git-imap-send if the curl version is >= 7.34.0. If you do
not need that functionality, use NO_CURL to build without
it.
git-imap-send. If you do not need that functionality,
use NO_CURL to build without it.
Git requires version "7.21.3" or later of "libcurl" to build
Git requires version "7.61.0" or later of "libcurl" to build
without NO_CURL. This version requirement may be bumped in
the future.