Re: bug#14380: 24.3; `network-stream-open-tls' fails in some imap servers on w32

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 20 May 2013 17:21:47 +0200 Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> wrote: 

JB> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Because we've had years of experience supporting GnuTLS, we're moving to
>> GnuTLS 3.x soon (there were no objections to my proposal for that), the
>> ELPA has matured and requires a secure transport[1], and we've heard
>> many times from our users on those two platforms that we should.

JB> It still seems to me like a pretty serious change in our distribution
JB> model, just because of GnuTLS on Windows and Mac OS.

I think in the distribution of libraries on those two platforms we are
not even in the same millennium as most other software there.  I'm
willing to live with the non-security libraries like libxml (although
those can be compromised too).  But we should at least make an effort to
tell the user they are out of date, even if we do nothing more.

JB> I agree with Eli that installing GnuTLS from a zip file is easy enough.

OK, 2 votes against and 1 in favor.

Ted