From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable)
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:31:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfvd3azui.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnnr40qo.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:51:43 -0500")
> "Whether you need to support gnutls 2.12.x is up to you. However, I note
> that this version is totally unsupported, if it is broken or has a
> critical bug you are on your own."
Emacs doesn't use GnuTLS, the end-user does. I don't think it's Emacs's
role to coerce the user into upgrading her libgnutls.
> I hope that helps clarify things and perhaps convince you and others
> that we should stop supporting GnuTLS 2.6.6 (the current minimum) or any
> other 2.x GnuTLS release with Emacs 25.
No, I still think the burden of supporting 2.6.6 is currently smaller
than the cost of not supporting it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-28 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-23 18:38 Build failure (master; MS-Windows) Dani Moncayo
2014-11-23 21:41 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-11-23 22:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-23 22:52 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-11-23 22:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-23 23:09 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-11-25 9:32 ` proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable) (was: Build failure (master; MS-Windows)) Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-25 15:57 ` proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-25 16:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-25 16:38 ` Buildbot for Emacs? (was: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable)) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-25 16:50 ` Buildbot for Emacs? Glenn Morris
2014-11-25 16:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-25 22:15 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-25 23:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-26 9:52 ` Tom
2014-11-25 17:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-25 22:14 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-25 17:34 ` proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable) Stefan Monnier
2014-11-25 18:55 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-26 9:14 ` Peder O. Klingenberg
2014-11-26 12:57 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-26 13:47 ` Peder O. Klingenberg
2014-11-26 13:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-26 14:12 ` Peder O. Klingenberg
2014-11-26 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-26 16:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-26 21:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-26 21:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-27 2:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-27 2:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-28 18:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-28 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-11-29 20:02 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-26 13:46 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
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