Am 10.11.21 um 16:51 schrieb Jim Jagielski:
> Yeah... I'm not sure which is the bigger effort: All the required 
> serf/apr/scons upgrade or the Curl one.

Some time ago the maintainer of Serf offered us help. I also think he
wanted to move away from Scons in the next build.

Meanwhile, I found this:

https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126312

Maybe that helps?

>
> For 4.1.X it's much more a big deal, because we support such ancient OSs. For 
> 4.2.x and trunk, not so much.
>
>> On Nov 10, 2021, at 10:42 AM, Matthias Seidel <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> Am 09.11.21 um 21:50 schrieb Jim Jagielski:
>>> I've recently folded in openssl-1.1 to trunk and all branches, but this 
>>> gets us in a corner.
>>>
>>> To support this version of openssl, we need to upgrade Serf. This means 
>>> that we need to also update apr and apr-util as well as include a 
>>> requirement that the build server also as SCons installed. This could be 
>>> problematic, esp for those older, legacy systems that we want to continue 
>>> to support.
>>>
>>> One alternative is to simply drop Serf completely; we already require curl, 
>>> and we could start using curl for the WebDav functionality instead of it 
>>> being the (sole, afaict) reason for Serf.
>>>
>>> The focus would be on ./main/ucb/source/ucp/webdav and migrating it from 
>>> Serf to curl... 
>> Looking at that code it may be a bigger rewrite?
>>
>> If it takes longer, can we do that in a separate branch?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>    Matthias
>>
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