On 7/20/22 15:06, Randall via curl-library wrote:
On July 20, 2022 6:07 AM, Mühlstrasser wrote:
I found the following entry in the release notes for curl 7.82.0:
TPF: drop support
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/8378
With that the code related to CURL_DOES_CONVERSIONS was removed.
Do I understand it correctly that EBCDIC support is gone now in general?
That would actually be bad if true. There are downstream projects that
depend on this, AFAIK.
A message has been posted to curl library mailing list as a poll for
this removal: see https://curl.se/mail/lib-2022-02/0023.html and
following thread.
Your reaction comes 6 months too late!
IMO, the lack of maintainer/working-group and even interest from the
community for almost 12 years (at least in libcurl's mailing list scope)
is a sufficient reason for considering the port as abandonware.
The downstream project you mention have run since then with a 12 year
old binary lib and probably will still do it for years (I don't believe
they compile it themselves!). People in these projects did not make
themself known to the mailing list or github. Even if the TPF support
had been retained, there's a very little probability a modern binary
would have been made available to public and those projects upgraded.
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