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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -119,27 +119,22 @@ Issues of note:
- A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run some scripts needed
for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "request-pull").
- - "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the
+ - "Perl" version 5.26.0 or later is needed to use some of the
features (e.g. sending patches using "git send-email",
interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can
live without these, use NO_PERL. Note that recent releases of
Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package with some
- core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/),
+ core modules stripped away (see https://lwn.net/Articles/477234/),
so you might need to install additional packages other than Perl
itself, e.g. Digest::MD5, File::Spec, File::Temp, Net::Domain,
Net::SMTP, and Time::HiRes.
- - git-imap-send needs the OpenSSL library to talk IMAP over SSL if
- you are using libcurl older than 7.34.0. Otherwise you can use
- NO_OPENSSL without losing git-imap-send.
-
- "libcurl" library is used for fetching and pushing
repositories over http:// or https://, as well as by
- git-imap-send if the curl version is >= 7.34.0. If you do
- not need that functionality, use NO_CURL to build without
- it.
+ git-imap-send. If you do not need that functionality,
+ use NO_CURL to build without it.
- Git requires version "7.19.5" or later of "libcurl" to build
+ Git requires version "7.61.0" or later of "libcurl" to build
without NO_CURL. This version requirement may be bumped in
the future.