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Re: drop TPF support?
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From: Cristian Rodríguez via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 14:04:57 -0300
On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 6:56 AM Daniel Stenberg via curl-library
<curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>
> 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] = https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248124.html
>
You are way too gentle with this proprietary niche OS thingies. if
IBM needs curl it can surely send a patch to make it work, or hire you
or someone else to keep it working.
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 14:04:57 -0300
On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 6:56 AM Daniel Stenberg via curl-library
<curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>
> 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] = https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248124.html
>
You are way too gentle with this proprietary niche OS thingies. if
IBM needs curl it can surely send a patch to make it work, or hire you
or someone else to keep it working.
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