From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Win32 GnuTLS DLL installer? Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:44:05 +0300 Message-ID: <83a81odk0q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lgl9e4ji.fsf@lifelogs.com> <5e2a6b84f4051ba2d4d427200045c947.squirrel@cloud103.planethippo.com> <8760ccdt3g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83mv5ods3n.fsf@gnu.org> <87zi9ocbae.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83fubgdm4y.fsf@gnu.org> <87vakcc5xn.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506015870 25969 195.159.176.226 (21 Sep 2017 17:44:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:44:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 21 19:44:26 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dv5WS-0006Ni-JW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:44:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54924 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv5WZ-0007Ds-Dv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:44:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51250) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv5WQ-0007DX-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:44:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv5WN-0004jd-W9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39248) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv5WN-0004jY-U4; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2890 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dv5WM-0002dy-MC; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:44:19 -0400 In-reply-to: <87vakcc5xn.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:33:40 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218641 Archived-At: > From: Ted Zlatanov > Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:33:40 -0400 > > EZ> So whenever the current branch sees a new release, someone would have > EZ> to port it to Windows and provide the binaries? > > I'd check for the binaries that are actually available, so it wouldn't > do anything other than saying "hey there's a new DLL you should run." Available from where? Surely, we won't want to recommend security-related DLLs whose quality we cannot guarantee, would we? And how can we guarantee quality of DLLs built by someone out there, about whose build procedure and its QA we know nothing? E.g., how do we know they've run the test suite and made sure every failure is either fixed or analyzed to conclude that it isn't a real problem? Bottom line, I'd really love to see someone volunteer to do this job in a way that we could simply rely on them and point to their site (or copy stuff from there to ELPA), but I'm not holding my breath, having done that several times myself. It's not an easy job, and requires non-trivial investment of time and effort.