Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

On 02/04/2014 12:11 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> Well, here's the rejection letter:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/163980
>
> As I said then, feel free to add your vote of support.

I don't see his email as rejecting entirely the idea of having Emacs C 
code invoke GnuTLS functionsthat it doesn't already invoke.  It's more 
that it's a negative (a tighter coupling between Emacs and GnuTLS), that 
could be overcome by other positives (more functionality that's actually 
useful).

Do you have some clear and convincing use-cases?  That seemed to be his 
first objection.

For example, would it help the performance of secure-hash considerably 
if it used the GnuTLS API to do checksums?  If we did that in Gnulib, 
the maintenance overhead to Emacs proper would be essentially zero, and 
the integration hassles for Emacs users would be no greater than they 
are now (since Emacs already uses GnuTLS if available).  For which 
real-life use-cases would this help?