No problem, I figured it was worth changing it so that long tags are used in that section. It should be changed at this time.
I’m more inclined to think that neither is lying, but one is more or less misinformed.
It turns out that some installations of PHP have this attribute called “short_open_tag” turned off by default, which causes the block of code that displays whether or not cURL is installed was being outright ignored.
I’m testing a potential fix, and should be able to push something out later.