From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:28:31 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <871tordz2o.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87389762xj.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416933050 12336 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2014 16:30:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:30:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 17:30:43 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XtJ0j-0003bQ-9K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:30:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58260 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtJ0i-0004oL-IX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:30:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37166) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtJ0E-0004np-JQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:30:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtJ08-0003zE-Pi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:30:10 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46588) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtJ08-0003xS-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:30:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XtJ07-00036R-Ay for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:30:03 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:30:03 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:30:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YSG8IHXyOAnNxdYO3teaPQ4TSAs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178251 Archived-At: On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:57:06 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> Conditionally supporting GnuTLS 2.6.6 is a pain because many functions >> were added since then. It complicates the code significantly today and >> for the future, possibly hiding bugs in the compatibility layers. We're >> already starting to see these compilation issues in the bug tracker and >> on emacs-devel and it would be nice to cut the cord now. LMI> I think it'll be many years before there is a non-significant number of LMI> gnutls 2.x users out there. The current Debian Stable uses 2.12, and LMI> the various LTS versions of the different GNU/Linux distributions will LMI> remain on 2.x for a Long Time, I think. Bah. Users. OK. Is there a Hydra build job with GnuTLS for those platforms? It would be nice to get build job failures. Ted