daniel:// stenberg://

1 year ago

daniel:// stenberg://
1 year ago

Starting soon, you might need Windows XP or later to run #curl on Windows... Yes, the XP that was introduced in 2001.

build: require Windows XP or newer by vszakats · Pull Request #12225 · curl/curl

After this patch we assume availability of getaddrinfo and freeaddrinfo, first introduced in Windows XP. Meaning curl now requires building for Windows XP as a minimum. TODO: assume these also in a...

^GitHub

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Ann Effes

in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// 1 year ago

Wait, you are braking compatibility to a bit older systems? But WHY?

(just in case: Joke)

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LangerJan

in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// 1 year ago

That's the final straw!

I'll be upgrading 😆

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William Leech

in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// 1 year ago

Tangential question that that thread has made me wonder: How do you decide what to put in the user surveys? I recently worked for someone creating a survey and the attention to detail in the design to try and get the most useful data there was mind boggling. Given how important #curl is, it makes me wonder how you do it?

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daniel:// stenberg://

in reply to William Leech 1 year ago

@WilliamLeech I started out by adding all the questions that I could think of that I would like answers to. Then I try to learn, add and adjust them every year to reach better and to help us better. But I also want to keep most of them mostly the same so that we better can see trends and changes year-by-year. Then maybe asking the questions is the easy part, figuring out what the answers mean is harder...

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