From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:57:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sih78e99.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87389762xj.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:32:24 -0500")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> 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.
I think it'll be many years before there is a non-significant number of
gnutls 2.x users out there. The current Debian Stable uses 2.12, and
the various LTS versions of the different GNU/Linux distributions will
remain on 2.x for a Long Time, I think.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-25 15:57 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 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2014-11-25 16:28 ` proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable) 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
2014-11-29 20:02 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-26 13:46 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
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