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Pruning the download page

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:39:16 +0200 (CEST)

Hi friends,

I've always enjoyed the fact that our downlods page is extremely extensive
with links to downloads for just about everything you can imagine.

But a whole lot of those downloads are now starting to age and with no updates
to those packages in sight. I'm starting to suspect that we do our users a
disservice but pointing them to really old crappy curl versions instead of
gently "forcing" them to build their own from source instead (and then
indirectly perhaps get those newer versions to point to).

The download page is completely generated by a script. I'm considering making
it automatically skip all versions that are older than X, where X could be
7.20.0 to start with (it was released in February 2010).

Would this make you upset? Will this cause the sky to fall down? Will it make
my coffee get sour? Let me know. Silence means you agree with me... =)

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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