Re: Another update of GNU TLS bindings

[Simon Josefsson]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Wouldn't GNUTLS be a surprising place to find ssl.el? Wmperry's ssl.el
>     invokes OpenSSL (`start-process').
>
> We will want to change it to use GNUTLS, that being our replacement
> for OpenSSL.

It does use GNUTLS, but since GNUTLS is a compile time option, it
cannot be assumed to be available.  Hence the addition of ssl.el which
invokes OpenSSL as a fallback if GNUTLS was not compiled with Emacs.
If GNUTLS is compiled into Emacs, OpenSSL is never used.