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Re:The time might come when we add some JSON specific comman... by thwarted on Thursday January 20, 2022 @01:55PM (#30013011)
The exact opposite is more likely true, depending on the nature of the change. A new utility has no current usage so there are no in-the-wild backwards compatibility concerns. The system python on redhat based distros was stuck at 2 for a long time because some of the sysadmin utilities relied on it and all those deps needs to be vetted or converted to either a newer python version or their own shipped version of the runtime that didn't use the general purpose python install.
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Re:The time might come when we add some JSON specific comman... by jedberg on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:09PM (#30013193)
Python is a huge outlier in this case. Very rarely do you have a default tool that can't be upgraded, and this case was only because Python is an interpreted language.

Curl is a command line tool. As long as they only add new functionality, there is very little that prevents an upgrade.

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Re:The time might come when we add some JSON specific comman... by jsight on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:01PM (#30013082)
There's a big difference between a bump to the latest curl version and a jump between two major versions of a language runtime. The Python 2->3 transition took years and many distros kept both versions.

Most dependencies get updated much more quickly. It wouldn't even shock me if this change got picked up mid-cycle.

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Re:The time might come when we add some JSON specific comman... by bonkabonka on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:19PM (#30013365)
Unhappily RedHat won't. Heck, RedHat has gone well out of their way to backport updated TLS handshakes (1.2 at least) to their 2013 version (7.29.0) of curl.
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Re:The time might come when we add some JSON specific comman... by jsight on Monday January 24, 2022 @11:27AM (#30059789)
I'm assuming that you mean for RHEL? That's a little bit of a special case.
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Re:The time might come when we add some JSON specific comman... by ericbarrett on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:09PM (#30013194)
This is only a valid comparison if curl deprecates or moves options, as Python 3 did with language features and standard library functions.
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