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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bump required libcurl version to 7.17.1
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 12.01.2020 at 23:56, G. P. B. wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 at 23:33, Levi Morrison via internals <
> internals@lists.php.net> wrote:
>
>> In other words, I recommend against *requiring* the latest curl
>> version and but do recommend bumping the minimum up to at least v7.19.
>> Unless we really need something from newer versions (which it doesn't
>> look like we do), anything newer than 7.29 would just cause friction
>> for people building from source.
>
> As this is targeting PHP 8 I would say 7.29 would be better IMHO as
> RHEL/CentOS 6 EOL is November 30, 2020 [1] [2] which means it would be
> EOL just after PHP 8 is released (if PHP 8 is release on the yearly
> schedule).
>
> [1] https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/centos
> [2] https://access.redhat.com/discussions/2399461

I agree that it makes sense to bump to >=3D 7.29.0 for PHP 8.0.0, and have
updated the PR accordingly.

Thanks,
Christoph