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Re: need help with certificate bundles for ALL the platforms Emacs suppo


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: need help with certificate bundles for ALL the platforms Emacs supports
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:12:17 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux)

> Also I don't want to decide the default bundle file names at the time
> the defcustom is evaluated.  Since `gnutls-trustfiles' can contain
> function calls, I'd like it to be called when it's needed.  For
> instance, it's very common to store certificates as PEM files in a
> directory, and the user should be able to choose that approach instead
> of managing a concatenated bundle.  If we built the file list only once,
> the modular approach would fail.  Another situation is on W32, where the
> cert bundle has to be dynamically built (which will require some caching
> but should still be done as close to using the bundle as possible).

OK, but the variable should not be a "list of (function or filename)".
That's ugly.  Maybe we can have it be "a function or a list of files".


        Stefan



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