From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bo Grimes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Windows 10, Melpa, TSL Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:19:33 -0400 Message-ID: <57B61855.9060205@fastmail.com> References: <57B5C8AB.6050305@fastmail.com> <83fuq2dj7w.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471551639 6571 195.159.176.226 (18 Aug 2016 20:20:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:20:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20140623 FossaMail/24.6.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 18 22:20:35 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1baTnn-0001Pz-1X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 22:20:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54224 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1baTnk-0007yC-9I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:20:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1baTmv-0007i7-Lm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:19:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1baTms-0006lQ-EW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:51152) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1baTmq-0006ku-5Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:19:38 -0400 Original-Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671D82030D for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:19:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:19:31 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.com; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=lr7h7uBSbmMuS2OrpImutQHXr+E=; b=Zqp/ta tJxgyC6tDlOSGcqCG+1g4nqtgJB6nSGs9RhAKpWyl1waCGIBQP6qdH92b4xd4RUh UVV267bT+kHwxX8e/rRvLRIQ//EtV8ohqRmbdVJqCnl6zTFX3Avrrb0GrQDzY6Xx L56f44DOqsqMD8Rg+msAPKOXg4cCebLrmM378= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=lr7h7uBSbmMuS2O rpImutQHXr+E=; b=KYsgL9fT/rr7OZ2Ldmgvvei9MT6cY1SwMM9xcUSpzm6Wg/J uoaRQh65Fv4UBlqLpkZ3pPRegShamidUVHxZmoHpBI5J0cOPKaHppL0GOGujVM8e y1mxq1WEb3RXZtTB4nwyGVPb8GHAiI01/j1k88OfAXL3qfh6uoSb7RRo621I= X-Sasl-enc: JE/3a9fJO22Vf3oWZkyq0kUrxUn4TuT/3k+Luu2E9OSf 1471551571 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.180] (pool-100-36-130-189.washdc.fios.verizon.net [100.36.130.189]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 08823CCE68 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:19:31 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83fuq2dj7w.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 66.111.4.26 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111178 Archived-At: On 8/18/2016 2:29 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:39:39 -0400 >> From: Bo Grimes >> >> 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.