Re: Using gnutls.c by default

[Robert Pluim]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 3 May 2011 01:09:02 +0200 Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> wrote: 
>
> JB> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 00:50, Christoph Scholtes
> JB> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> Right now, if you enable GnuTLS support on Windows, you MUST have the GnuTLS
>>> libraries in order to even start Emacs. This is, I believe, what Juanma's
>>> improvements will fix (dynamic loading of the library if needed, much like
>>> the graphics libraries).
>
> JB> Right.
>
>>> Until this is implemented, GnuTLS should not be enabled by default and
>>> Sean's weekly builds should also not be built with GnuTLS support enabled.
>
> JB> Agreed.
>
> Now that W32 has dynamic GnuTLS loading, I think it can be enabled by
> default.  Does anyone have objections or comments?  As I mentioned I
> don't use that platform so I can't speak for its users.

I've been using it under cygwin for a while now. I do still get hangs
occasionally, but they're definitely not GnuTLS' fault (my X server
hangs as well at the same time, and sometimes I hadn't even started
gnus, so gnutls.el would not have been loaded yet), and they're very
highly correlated with wifi + ip address changes. I'd say go for it.

Robert