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Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

From: James Fuller via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 18:17:27 +0200

+1 for LTS pursued along more commercial routes.

Jim

On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 17:57, Dan Fandrich via curl-library
<curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 10:33:55AM +0200, Kamil Dudka via curl-library wrote:
> > I think the key question is who would maintain such an LTS branch in upstream.
>
> Maybe some of the distros maintaining their own LTS branches of curl would
> sponsor such a branch? Right now, there are several people in your shoes,
> doing the same difficult job of backporting security fixes using several curl
> releases as a baseline. Pooling resources would mean less work for everyone.
>
> The big downside is the lack of choice on the baseline version to use as an LTS
> branch. RHEL and Ubuntu releases (for example) are based on whatever Fedora
> or Debian happen to have in their repos at the time the LTS release is cut.
> Switching libcurl to an LTS branch that might be a year or two older would be
> pretty disruptive.
>
> Maybe a better approach would be to get some embedded users to sponsor an LTS
> branch, since they usually have more flexibility in what version they choose
> for their products. That also might not be so straightforward either since, in
> my experience, most embedded companies don't really care much about security.
> But, it might work if only a handful of companies pony up.
>
> Dan
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