On Wed, 3 May 2017, at 23:24, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2017, Jeremy Nicoll via curl-users wrote:
>
> > But maybe the existing builds are fine for RISC OS users? RISC OS is
> > certainly still around and in use, with successive new versions of the OS
> > and support for a variety of newer hardware.
>
> The only existing RISC OS download we point to from the download page is
> curl
> 7.11.0, released in 2004. I haven't found a newer version anywhere else
> either.

Maybe (I don't know) if people have made newer builds they've grabbed
the
source and built it themselves? Those people might well be relying on
RO-
specific features in the codebase even if you don't know they're out
there.

> Because this is the primary (and only?) curl tool mailing list and I'm
> asking?
> This is the place we discussed the feature when we added it, this is the
> place
> we're discussing removing it!

I understand the purpose of this list. I read this list because I'm a
programmer
& I've used curl a little in the past... and I like to stay in touch
with what's going
on with all the tools I might one day use again.

I used to be a RO user, but I haven't been for ages. I am not uptodate
with what
is going on in RO development, except that I read various other mail
lists where
many of the subscribers still do use RO.

> Really, if people want to have a say in what we do in curl and with curl,
> they
> would need to come here. It can't work otherwise. If they're not
> involved, it
> means they leave it to us to run the project and development to the best
> of
> our abilities.

I only happened to notice that RO was mentioned in your post at the
start of this
thread, by accident. I read the post because I was a little bit
intrigued by its
subject line, NOT because I'm a current RO-user of curl and recognised
that the
subject represented a threat (if it does) to how a RO user would use
curl.

I don't know how long you've been contemplating this change, nor whether
you've
made any attempt to find out if there are lots/any RO users of curl
reading this list.
But it seems to me that mentioning RISC OS in a subject line would be a
better way
of finding out.

Or asking the people who maintain it.

-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
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