Using gnutls.c by default

[T.V. Raman]

In that case, could we support slightly older versions of gnutls?
Apparently there is no prebuilt package for gnutls 2.6 on Jaunty
-- I'm going to install  it from source. But I suspect the
average user is going to get burnt.
-- 
Best Regards,
--raman

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Best Regards,
--raman


On 5/5/11, Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 05 May 2011 16:16:44 +0200 Robert Pluim <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> RP> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>>> On Thu, 5 May 2011 13:57:48 +0200 Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
>>> wrote:
>>>
> JB> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 13:50, Andy Moreton <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>>>> It would be better to wait a week or two until there has been some
>>>>> feedback about use of GnuTLS on Win32.
>>>
> JB> We're talking about the trunk. Supporting GnuTLS by default is what
> JB> will give us feedback, at least on Windows, where (much) fewer people
> JB> is expected to build their own Emacs.
>>>
>>> So far it's 5 to 1 votes in favor; I think it's badly needed on W32
>>> where there are serious problems with the alternatives to GnuTLS.
>>>
>>> Note that the user still has to (require 'gnutls) to use it.  We're just
>>> adding the library support to Emacs.  Without (require 'gnutls)
>>> `open-network-stream' won't use `gnutls-negotiate'.
>
> RP> Oh, I thought Lars was proposing to go further than that, and always use
> RP> GnuTLS if available. Makes no difference to my opinion, GnuTLS works for
> RP> me :)
>
> After re-reading the thread, you're right.  Sorry for the confusion, I
> thought it was just about adding the library support.
>
> So this proposal is to enable GnuTLS support for all the builds,
> including W32, and then to make (require 'gnutls) unnecessary because it
> will be done by `open-network-stream' by default.  The user has to
> explicitly turn off gnutls.el support in order to get the old behavior.
>
> Ted
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