Yeah... I'm not sure which is the bigger effort: All the required 
serf/apr/scons upgrade or the Curl one.

For 4.1.X it's much more a big deal, because we support such ancient OSs. For 
4.2.x and trunk, not so much.

> On Nov 10, 2021, at 10:42 AM, Matthias Seidel <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> Am 09.11.21 um 21:50 schrieb Jim Jagielski:
>> I've recently folded in openssl-1.1 to trunk and all branches, but this gets 
>> us in a corner.
>> 
>> To support this version of openssl, we need to upgrade Serf. This means that 
>> we need to also update apr and apr-util as well as include a requirement 
>> that the build server also as SCons installed. This could be problematic, 
>> esp for those older, legacy systems that we want to continue to support.
>> 
>> One alternative is to simply drop Serf completely; we already require curl, 
>> and we could start using curl for the WebDav functionality instead of it 
>> being the (sole, afaict) reason for Serf.
>> 
>> The focus would be on ./main/ucb/source/ucp/webdav and migrating it from 
>> Serf to curl... 
> 
> Looking at that code it may be a bigger rewrite?
> 
> If it takes longer, can we do that in a separate branch?
> 
> Regards,
> 
>    Matthias
> 
>> 
>> Comments? Suggestions? Alternatives?
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