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: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:24:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87aa64ubg9.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83boqkr9bp.fsf@gnu.org> <874nwcu17i.fsf@wanadoo.es> <834nwcr6un.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcosskhc.fsf@wanadoo.es> <831urgr2yr.fsf@gnu.org> <87r4zgsh2w.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ipks3zbo.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87boqk3q69.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87aa634st8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fwfvsgfv.fsf@wanadoo.es> <877h17scdo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87hb0b77nr.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8739bvs27m.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ty4b4329.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hb0b3yoe.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325741111 31133 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2012 05:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 05:25:11 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 05 06:25:04 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 1Rifp1-00080t-0o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:25:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35204 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rifp0-0005VC-1I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rifow-0005Uq-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:24:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rifov-00043g-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:24:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:40217) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rifov-00043a-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:24:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rifou-0002S3-TV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:24:56 -0500 In-reply-to: <87hb0b3yoe.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:12:01 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:147314 Archived-At: > From: Ted Zlatanov > Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:12:01 -0500 > > LMI> I don't really see that the ELPA solution really helps much here. > LMI> Wouldn't it be easier just to include the gnutls DLL in the Emacs zip > LMI> file? Problem solved. :-) > > I'm concerned about GnuTLS updates after the install. An ELPA package > could do that, a simple DLL drop couldn't. That's true, but if we assume that an urgent need to upgrade GnuTLS will not be too frequent, we can update it with each release and in binaries of development snapshots. That would probably do 80% of the job, if not more. That said, I'm not against an ELPA based solution.