Re: GnuTLS for W32

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 02:36, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:

> Comparing kinds of software here is bogus.

It wasn't me who proposed comparing software.

> The question is "what do users want?"

I think that's a strange metric. Users might want all kind of things
that we wouldn't want to offer, because of lack of resources, project
policies, etc. I think the question is "What can we offer (and want to
offer) while maximizing usefulness to the users?"

> I think is it quite reasonable to provide the service, default the
> automatic check OFF in the sources that the Emacs project publishes,
> and let redistributors make their own choices.

In this scenario, if the redistributor enables checking for GnuTLS
updates, who will distribute the DLL? The GNU project, or the
redistributor? If the latter, I'm OK with this proposal (the OFF part
is important, of course).

> However, there are alternative ways to provide notification services,
> such as providing an RSS feed for the update page, and making that
> easy to access manually (eg, from the Help or File menus).

Right.

    Juanma