From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using gnutls.c by default Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 12:50:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <8739kxvvc6.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4DBF352E.4010103@gmail.com> <87oc3hh1if.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304596254 814 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2011 11:50:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 11:50:54 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 05 13:50:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHx4x-0004gp-Co for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 13:50:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38200 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHx4w-0001sT-Us for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 07:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41721) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHx4v-0001sN-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 07:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHx4t-00046H-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 07:50:45 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55872) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHx4t-000464-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 07:50:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHx4r-0004ez-G9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 13:50:41 +0200 Original-Received: from 193.34.186.16 ([193.34.186.16]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2011 13:50:41 +0200 Original-Received: from andrewjmoreton by 193.34.186.16 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2011 13:50:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.34.186.16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nuxTpZvQrkJRjQqCgN15lr+yMYY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:139144 Archived-At: On Thu 05 May 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2011 01:09:02 +0200 Juanma Barranquero wrote: > > JB> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 00:50, Christoph Scholtes > JB> wrote: > >>> Right now, if you enable GnuTLS support on Windows, you MUST have the GnuTLS >>> libraries in order to even start Emacs. This is, I believe, what Juanma's >>> improvements will fix (dynamic loading of the library if needed, much like >>> the graphics libraries). > > JB> Right. > >>> Until this is implemented, GnuTLS should not be enabled by default and >>> Sean's weekly builds should also not be built with GnuTLS support enabled. > > JB> Agreed. > > Now that W32 has dynamic GnuTLS loading, I think it can be enabled by > default. Does anyone have objections or comments? As I mentioned I > don't use that platform so I can't speak for its users. There is little evidence of anybody using it yet, so making it the default seems premature. It would be better to wait a week or two until there has been some feedback about use of GnuTLS on Win32. AndyM