From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: William F Hammond <gellmu@gmail.com>
Cc: 20078@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20078: imap with openssl
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:24:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1tku47zs.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH_0fy7Hop6edS9gSCisGuHDuSYxDZZQ0kEPyMKNKnzQ5TQXbw@mail.gmail.com> (William F. Hammond's message of "Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:47:03 -0700")
> There's discussion in those threads about whether 'anyone' still uses
> imap.el and its calls to external openssl. It arises, for example, when
> using mail-sources with, say, nnmbox.
I consider imap.el's use of an external process to be a bug.
> My 'crisis' arose in a sun/solaris system where neither starttls nor gnutls
> is available. It seems that starttls is now no longer maintained (for
> cause) and, in my case, gnutls is not easy to build from source because of
> recursive library dependencies.
Hmm... we're definitely moving in the direction of requiring libgnutls
when building Emacs.
> Would it make sense for emacs to incorporate gnutls?
No, there be dragons.
> That way one could be sure for a given build of emacs that it would
> work with gnutls.
That would just mean that you wouldn't be able to build Emacs without
first solving the "recursive library dependencies".
But yes, I encourage you to try and solve these gnutls build problems,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-12 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-11 2:31 bug#20078: imap with openssl William F Hammond
2015-03-11 17:33 ` Glenn Morris
2015-03-11 18:47 ` William F Hammond
2015-03-11 18:59 ` Glenn Morris
2015-03-12 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-12-26 20:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-26 21:46 ` William F Hammond
2015-12-26 21:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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