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Re: Time to deprecate gskit

From: Sam James via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2023 20:07:02 +0000

> On 2 Jan 2023, at 15:23, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2023, Patrick Monnerat via curl-library wrote:
>
>> The real question is the whole OS400 port maintenance.
>
> Quite probably, yes. But we can also take it one step at a time.
>
>> There has been some efforts from contributors in this direction, but no regular maintainer for 6 years: I suggest to poll these people individually outside of this list to ask about their possible commitment, emphasing on gskit first.
>
> Sure, but with the little tweak that I don't actually care so much about what anyone says that they will do in the future but rather how much they actually step and up and *do*.
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> If we get the gskit support in shape in time before August 2023, I think that is a working argument to *not* deprecate it then.
>

CCing Calvin who has a strong interest in this and might be able to coordinate something. He's not sub'd.

Best,
sam


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