Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable)

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:52:32 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote: 

TZ> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:42:37 -0500 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 
SM> We usually consider it OK to drop support for things that are "older
SM> than Debian stable" or thereabout.  But usually it depends a lot on the
SM> cost of maintaining this backward compatibility.  In this case, the cost
SM> seems to be very reasonable, so I see no reason to drop support for
SM> GnuTLS2 at this stage.  Those tradeoffs change over time, so by Emacs-26
SM> it's quite likely that we'll get rid of GnuTLS2 support, indeed.

TZ> OK, so let's reevaluate then.  For now we'll continue supporting the 2.x
TZ> versions we do now.  It would be extremely helpful to have an easy way
TZ> to test Emacs compilation and functionality with ERT, perhaps in a
TZ> Vagrantfile or in Hydra or Travis or whatever.

FWIW, I just got a note about this on gnutls-devel that strongly
suggests supporting GnuTLS 3.x only:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/7811

I don't know if it changes anyone's mind :)

Ted