From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55055 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Replace starttls.el with GNUTLS based version? Date: 02 Dec 2003 11:35:31 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070385791 6302 80.91.224.253 (2 Dec 2003 17:23:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 17:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ueno@unixuser.org, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 02 18:23:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AREEu-0000U1-00 for ; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:23:08 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AREEu-00009U-00 for ; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:23:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ARF5u-0002mj-2z for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:17:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ARETc-0006Fe-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:38:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ARET1-0005ze-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:38:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AREST-0005nE-3F; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:37:09 -0500 Original-Received: from vor.iro.umontreal.ca (vor.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.42]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hB2GZVbj014165; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:35:32 -0500 Original-Received: by vor.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5EFDA3C63E; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:35:31 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18286 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55055 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55055 > assignments. It seems like some people find GNUTLS harder to compile > than starttls, And others already have starttls and might get annoyed if they suddenly have to cmpile/install gnutls just because we switched code. That'd be OK if starttls is non-free, but I believe this is not the case. > so the solution might be to merge the old and the new > version, so it can use either starttls or gnutls-cli. I think that's the best solution. Stefan