On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 03:41:37PM +0200, Guenter wrote:
> Hi all,
> due to failure of one of my autobuilds [1] I wonder if we have
> somewhere a document which lists the minimal versions of
> dependencies?

Yes: docs/INTERNALS But it looks like it's not quite up-to-date.

> I see few things mentioned in CHANGES, f.e.
> "http2: requires nghttp2 0.6.0 or later"
> or
> "nss: the minimal supported version of NSS bumped to 3.12.x"
> but didnt find which is the minimal supported version of gnutls ...
> on the other side I see with 7.37.1:
> "gnutls: fixed compilation against versions < 2.12.0"
>
> granted that my autobuild uses an ancient gnutls version 2.8.1, but
> shouldnt it then be rejected by configure if its not supported
> anymore?
> (f.e. we could test for the gnutls/abstract.h header)

I agree, if we can detect the version we should really abort if it's not
usable.

>
> At least for SSL libraries it could probably be added here:
> http://curl.haxx.se/docs/ssl-compared.html
> also this document should probably list that SSLv3 is no longer
> secure and now deprecated ...
>
> Gün.
>
> [1] http://curl.haxx.se/dev/log.cgi?id=20141022104423-9595#prob17

>>> Dan
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