Re: GnuTLS for W32

[chad <yandros@gmail.com>]

On Jan 5, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> 2012/1/5 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> 
>> You're right.  Do you agree with the general idea of checking for
>> critical updates on startup, though?
> 
> FWIW, I don't. That is a step (tiny, I know) in the "software as a
> service" direction.

I'm a little surprised to see the suggestion that `checking for critical updates' is objectionable because it's too much like `software as a service' in your mind.  Out of curiosity, do you assemble the pieces of your operating system by hand and manually check for updates yourself? Do you think that most GNU/Linux distributions are too much like `software as a service' for the same reasons?

> Does that mean that my Emacs is going to automatically try to
> establish a network connection without asking me? Or that I'm gonna be
> asked every time?

It would mean that the default Emacs would automatically try to establish a network connection without asking you, yes. If you believe that the default user is opposed to this, I'll suggest that you might not have noticed them all voting with their feet in favor of this at least a decade ago.  This isn't even the old `Windows Majority', even - I can't think of a computing system today that meets the criteria ``might run Emacs 24.2'' and ``does NOT somehow check the network for critical updates in the default installation''.

*Chad