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Re: drop TPF support?
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From: Stefan Eissing via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 11:01:46 +0100
> Am 03.02.2022 um 10:55 schrieb Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>:
>
> Hello team,
>
> Is anyone building or using a modern (lib)curl on TPF?
>
> Back in September 2010 we did the last "confirmed working" change to curl that builds on TPF (commit 7e1a45e224e57).
>
> I did find the book "z/TPF Application Modernization using Standard and Open Middleware" [1], published in 2013, that mentions using libcurl on this platform for HTTP. This is the most modern reference I could find to curl on TPF.
>
> TPF is a fairly different OS and environment (compared to most others that we support building curl for), based on the changes we have for it. This leads me to suspect that a decade of improvements and source code changes are more or less guaranteed to have broken the TPF build a long time ago without anyone ever saying anything or fixing it.
>
> (Yes, I'm on an old-platforms cleanup mission.)
+1 to removing old platforms.
If they really need it, they'll whip up a support contract for sure. -.-
>
> [1] = https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248124.html
>
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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 11:01:46 +0100
> Am 03.02.2022 um 10:55 schrieb Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>:
>
> Hello team,
>
> Is anyone building or using a modern (lib)curl on TPF?
>
> Back in September 2010 we did the last "confirmed working" change to curl that builds on TPF (commit 7e1a45e224e57).
>
> I did find the book "z/TPF Application Modernization using Standard and Open Middleware" [1], published in 2013, that mentions using libcurl on this platform for HTTP. This is the most modern reference I could find to curl on TPF.
>
> TPF is a fairly different OS and environment (compared to most others that we support building curl for), based on the changes we have for it. This leads me to suspect that a decade of improvements and source code changes are more or less guaranteed to have broken the TPF build a long time ago without anyone ever saying anything or fixing it.
>
> (Yes, I'm on an old-platforms cleanup mission.)
+1 to removing old platforms.
If they really need it, they'll whip up a support contract for sure. -.-
>
> [1] = https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248124.html
>
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