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Subject: Re: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32
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> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:29:56 +0100
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> claudio.bley@gmail.com (Claudio Bley) writes:
> 
> > I want to detect whether the current Emacs instance has been built
> > with GnuTLS support. If so, load gnutls, otherwise use the old
> > starttls / gnutls-cli approach.
> 
> I prefer Lars's suggestion to leave that decision to higher levels of
> the code.

It should probably simply be a defcustom.  I don't see how ``higher
levels of code'' could ever DTRT in this respect.  If they can know
something about that, so can gnutls.el.