Re: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> In the case of open-network-stream, why do you need to use
> gnutls-available-p?  Why not either use `starttls', or do `tls' and then
> `network' if that fails?  After all, gnutls not being available is only
> one of many possible failure modes, so it's better to just let
> open-network-stream handle them.

Well, this is to allow `open-network-stream' to handle that.  Today it
uses (fboundp 'open-gnutls-stream), which is a very bad test, since it
only tests for whether someone has loaded the gnutls.el library, which
says nothing about whether Emacs has been linked against gnutls, or (in
Windows) whether the DLL has been loaded.

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