Re: [PATCH] Support for Sqlite Archive files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>
> Cc: Madhu <enometh@meer.net>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 02:50:38 +0300
> 
> >> since openssl (gnutls) json,
> >> treesitter, etc., all encouraging linking with 3rd party libraries, and
> >> removing the option of having the functionalitu in emacs, without emacs
> >> depending on those libraries.
> >
> > GnuTLS is preferred because the alternative communicates with Emacs
> > via signals, something that is much less portable and also an awful
> > design.  (We switched to internal timers long ago for the same
> > reasons.)
> 
> Are you talking about the OpenSSL CLI or the library?

Neither.  I'm talking about starttls.el and the gnutls-cli program it
used.  Emacs never supported OpenSSL, AFAIR.