Re: Windows 10, Melpa, TSL

[Bo Grimes <vcg3rd@fastmail.com>]

On 8/18/2016 2:29 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:39:39 -0400
>> From: Bo Grimes <vcg3rd@fastmail.com>
>>
>> Some more Google work led me to believe it was a TSL problem.  I
>> followed the advice here:
>> http://xn--9dbdkw.se/diary/how_to_enable_GnuTLS_for_Emacs_24_on_Windows/index.en.html
>> which is basically:
>>
>> Get GnuTSL, extract, copy DLLs to the bin directory of Emacs, restart
>> Emacs.  It worked.
>>
>> So, what's the problem?  The problem is I don't know what I did, and I
>> don't like that. I don't know if I really fixed anything or if I created
>> potential future problems.
> No potential problems.  What you did was install a library that Emacs
> needs to create secure connections.  Your Emacs was already ready to
> use that library, but you didn't have it on your system.  That library
> doesn't come with Windows out of the box.

Great thanks.  I don't understand why it worked fine for months, and 
then didn't, unless the Windows 10 Anniversary Update did something, but 
as long as what I did won't cause any problems, I'm fine with accepting 
it's Windows.