Re: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32

[Robert Pluim]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:29:56 +0100
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>> 
>> address@hidden (Claudio Bley) writes:
>> 
>> > I want to detect whether the current Emacs instance has been built
>> > with GnuTLS support. If so, load gnutls, otherwise use the old
>> > starttls / gnutls-cli approach.
>> 
>> I prefer Lars's suggestion to leave that decision to higher levels of
>> the code.
>
> It should probably simply be a defcustom.  I don't see how ``higher
> levels of code'' could ever DTRT in this respect.  If they can know
> something about that, so can gnutls.el.

One thing that springs to mind is that eg gnus could ask 'use builtin
TLS (o)nce (n)ever (a)lways' or similar, although I agree you could put
that in gnutls as well.

Anyway, as long as I can turn if off without being overridden elsewhere,
I don't mind what the implementation is like.

Robert