From: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Cc: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Which macOS versions does Git support?
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 13:49:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7778a454-fefd-5b8a-212b-ab46681ccfd4@jeffhostetler.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230519090917.GB3515410@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On 5/19/23 5:09 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 08:00:00AM +0100, M Hickford wrote:
>
>> Hi. Does anyone know which macOS versions are supported by Git?
>
> I don't think we have any formal decision here (or for any other
> platform; it is usually a cost/benefit for individual features we may
> want to depend on).
>
>> Motivation: I spotted that git-credential-osxkeychain.c uses a
>> deprecated API. SecKeychainAddInternetPassword was deprecated in
>> 2014's macOS 10.10 [1]. Replacement SecItemAdd was introduced in
>> 2009's macOS 10.6 [2].
>
> +cc Taylor, who I know was looking into this recently.
>
> I'd guess that anything older than 2009 is probably not worth worrying
> about.
>
>> Further motivation: If I understand the documentation correctly, the
>> new SecItemAdd API has better support for storing attributes alongside
>> secrets, which might be handy for storing Git credential's new
>> password_expiry_utc attribute (d208bfd, credential: new attribute
>> password_expiry_utc, 2023-02-18).
>
> Yeah, that would be a nice bonus (in addition to avoiding a deprecated
> interface).
>
> -Peff
I had similar issues last year with older versions of the compiler
tools and/or an API that I was using in FSMonitor.
https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqsfhtphpl.fsf@gitster.g/T/
https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1375.git.1665085395.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
IIRC my API usage needs 10.6 or newer.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-19 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-19 7:00 Which macOS versions does Git support? M Hickford
2023-05-19 9:09 ` Jeff King
2023-05-19 17:49 ` Jeff Hostetler [this message]
2023-05-20 0:37 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2023-05-20 7:36 ` M Hickford
2023-05-22 19:24 ` Jeff King
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