From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GnuTLS for W32 Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:03:00 +0200 Message-ID: <83sjjvpcq3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ehvjs8t5.fsf@gnu.org> <87pqf3bcom.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83boqns68o.fsf@gnu.org> <87liprazr1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83wr9bqez3.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5tr9dwv.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87k45alwgb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87fwfyltm1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87boqmlrma.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ty4e9j19.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83obumqa0v.fsf@gnu.org> <87ipktag2e.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8762gt9blm.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83fwfwra0t.fsf@gnu.org> <8739bv91dl.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87boqjsg2t.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325700248 29101 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2012 18:04:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:04:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 04 19:04:04 2012 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 1RiVBz-0003Tb-QQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:04:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36764 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiVBz-0002dP-5n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:04:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56877) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiVBw-0002Xc-7A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:04:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiVBp-0005xp-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:04:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:35480) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiVBp-0005xX-BY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:03:53 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LXA00I00CLA6H00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:03:51 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.18.76]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LXA00GTNCUAUVM0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:03:48 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87boqjsg2t.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:147279 Archived-At: > From: =D3scar Fuentes > Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:22:18 +0100 >=20 > > The addendum is "...and so GnuTLS is available to non-Emacs proce= sses > > too" which is something I did not consider carefully but your men= tion of > > wget brought up. We don't want multiple versions of the GnuTLS D= LL all > > over the place, that could be worse for security than a single ou= tdated > > version. So the package.el install is not a good W32 solution to > > deliver GnuTLS, after all. >=20 > You are very wrong. For starters, MS Windows is not like most GNU/L= inux > distribution that use a system for keeping all installed software i= n > sync. The wget example is a red herring. Sharing the gnutls dll is = so > wrong at some many levels that I wont start discussing it. FUD