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1 year ago

daniel:// stenberg://
1 year ago

Let's kick this fine Monday morning off with a #curl issue filed against curl 7.37.0, released in May 2014...

occasional crash when execute curl_easy_perform · Issue #13370 · curl/curl

I did this Use curl_easy_perform to upload json text or file I expected the following curl_easy_perform is executed successfully. curl/libcurl version 7.37.0 operating system CentOS-7 Crash stack H...

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#curl

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daniel:// stenberg://

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sticking to an ancient stable distro is probably fine as long as everything works. But when you report issues on software from back when dinosaurs still walked the earth, you will end up wishing you used modern software...

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mid_kid

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I feel if you're developing against such old distros, you should be vendoring newer versions of some important libraries anyway...

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Aris Adamantiadis 💲Paid

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Then you give in and attempt to compile your stuff on that 8 years old distro and none of the build requirements are met... That's why LTS distros have paid support, because upstream's good will has limits.

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in reply to Aris Adamantiadis 💲Paid 1 year ago

@aris yeah that is common. But I've built curl with plenty of deps on numerous 10+ year old Linux distros so many times I know it is pretty straight forward and often even quite frictionless. It does however take a little time and energy.

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for a quick lookup-table exactly how ancient your #curl version is, we have this => curl.se/docs/releases.html

curl - Release Table

^curl.se

#curl

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Arjan van de Ven

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to some degree, if you choose to use something this old, this is why you pay your enterprise Linux vendor $$ for support

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Christopher Snowhill

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Looks like they updated it somehow from what their EOL distribution contains.

mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/…

CentOS Mirror

^{mirror.centos.org}

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John Wyatt 🐧

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#SpotTheLTS_User #RHEL7StillHasSupport #CentOS7LoosesSupportSoon 🙂

I am half tempted to ask them to pay for a copy of RHEL7 and open a support ticket with Red Hat. 🙂

#spotthelts_user #rhel7stillhassupport #centos7loosessupportsoon

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@sageofredondo I am half tempted to ask them to pay *me* for a support contract ...

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Paolo Barbolini

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I sometimes wander how these things happen. Did they need to setup a CentOS machine, realized v7 is the only supported version (endoflife.date/centos) and missed everything else that went on in the world in the last 4+ years?

CentOS

Check end-of-life, release policy and support schedule for CentOS.

^{endoflife.date}

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@paolobarbolini because it seems to happen so often I think it is rather just users stubbornly sticking to something "that works", being afraid of rocking the boat. Instead they paint themselves into corners like this.

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