On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 6:56 AM Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library@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. -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
