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[gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash
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Thomas Bushnell BSG |
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[gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash |
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Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:00:10 -0700 |
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Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
> Where have you seen this? I don't think we advertise the OpenSSL
> compatibility layer in GnuTLS prominently, and when it is mentioned,
> it should says that it is unfinished and limited.
It's common lore over in Debian-land. :)
But then, it's all we have.
> If you'd tell us where you got this impression, I could try to improve
> the documentation.
>
> The OpenSSL emulation layer in GnuTLS is quite thin, and I wouldn't
> recommend anyone to use it unless they have a very strong reason to do
> so. I haven't seen a good reason here yet.
Debian has made extremely heavy use of it, because of the noxious
license on openssl. We don't have a choice. It's really to the point
where we can either drop ssl support from Debian, or use
-lgnutls-openssl.
And nobody seems to be reporting lots of bugs. ;) This case is a
quite unusual one, because gwenhywfar asks for rather more from
openssl/crypto than most apps.
> I'm listening. First I'd like to try to convince you to use the
> GnuTLS API instead. It will probably be less work than fixing the
> OpenSSL compatibility layer to do what you want. What do you think?
It's not me. It's gwenhywfar. He thinks he's done all he can by
giving the openssl-exception to the GPL.
The irony, oddly, is that gwenhywfar is billed as a compatibility
library. So maybe I can convince him to backend to gnutls also.
One thing I think he's worried about is that file formats *must* be
compatible for the sake of existing users. Can we guarantee him that?
- [gnutls-dev] libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2006/06/08
- [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Simon Josefsson, 2006/06/09
- [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash,
Thomas Bushnell BSG <=
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Andreas Metzler, 2006/06/09
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2006/06/09
- [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Simon Josefsson, 2006/06/11
- [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2006/06/11
- [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Simon Josefsson, 2006/06/12
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/06/10
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2006/06/10
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/06/11
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2006/06/11
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/06/12