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Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable)
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable) |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:18:26 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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
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- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/25
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Ivan Shmakov, 2014/11/25
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Peder O. Klingenberg, 2014/11/26
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Ivan Shmakov, 2014/11/26
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Peder O. Klingenberg, 2014/11/26
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Ted Zlatanov, 2014/11/26
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Peder O. Klingenberg, 2014/11/26
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/26
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Ted Zlatanov, 2014/11/26
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable),
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/11/26
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/26
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Ted Zlatanov, 2014/11/26
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Ted Zlatanov, 2014/11/28
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/28
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Glenn Morris, 2014/11/29
- Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable), Michael Welsh Duggan, 2014/11/26