Re: GnuTLS updates proposal

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sat, 25 May 2013 03:10:36 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> Correction: they think that the current arrangement, whereby users are
>> pointed to specific distributions of GnuTLS and other 3rd party
>> packages, are adequate enough, and any additional effort is something
>> the Emacs developers are unlikely to be able to sustain.

SM> I sure won't spend any time on this, indeed, and I hope you don't
SM> either.  But I guess if someone wants to provide some Elisp code that
SM> eases up the installation (taking care of downloading the right DLL
SM> (which I guess might depend on the Emacs version and even the specific
SM> build) and installing it at the right place), that would be OK and could
SM> very well fit in GNU ELPA (I don't think I'd want the DLL itself to be
SM> there).  Hopefully such code would handle not just gnutls but also the
SM> other libraries, like libxml.

Sounds good, I'll put it on my TODO list after ELPA package signing.
Thank you for looking at my proposal.

Ted