Re: Windows 10, Melpa, TSL

[Bo Grimes <vcg3rd@fastmail.com>]

I couldn't let it go as to why I wasn't having the problem and then 
did.  I think it was two separate problems.  OP snipped to relevant 
portions:

On 8/18/2016 10:39 AM, Bo Grimes wrote:
>
> The Packages buffer loaded fine, but when I tried to install I got: 
> "could not create connection to melpa.milkbox.net"
>
> After some Google work, it seems I should have been using melpa.org 
> not melpa.milkbox.net, so I changed that, and still had the same problem.

I found this on Github from the maintainer of Milkbox:

"milkypostman commented 2 days ago
sorry about this, we are having issues with our webserver but not clear 
what the issue is."

> 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.
>

Apparently, because Milkbox was having webserver problems I couldn't 
connect.  When I switched to melpa I bumped into the fact that Melpa 
recently switched to https and Emacs Windows doesn't ship with SSL/TLS, 
a problem I wasn't having *before* because I was using Milkbox, a 
problem solved by the above procedure.

OK, I can go to sleep now.