Re: [h-e-w] bug#10612: GnuTLS bundled with the windows Emacs binaries

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:36:11 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:32:12 -0600
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
JB> Christoph's binaries are built against gnutls-3.0.9, but they do not
JB> include the GnuTLS DLLs.
>> 
>> Right, and GnuTLS 3.0.9 is not the latest.  I meant he should be
>> building against the latest GnuTLS, not include it.

EZ> You are being unreasonable.  3.0.9 was released just a month ago.  A
EZ> new GnuTLS release happens every 2 weeks, how can you expect each one
EZ> of them be ported to Windows at that pace?  Do you think it's just the
EZ> "./configure && make" dance we are used to on GNU/Linux?  It took me a
EZ> full week of uphill battle to do that with 3.0.9, what with all the
EZ> prerequisite packages I needed to port first.  The previous port
EZ> before that was of v2.10, from a year and a half ago.  How come it
EZ> suddenly is so urgent to have the latest and the greatest?

EZ> In any case, feel free to join the battle and help out, instead of
EZ> coming up with such unreasonable requirements.

My point was not that 3.1.2 is needed right now, but that Christoph
should be building against the latest GnuTLS in general.  Sorry if that
was not clear.

I did offer to set up a BuildBot to produce those DLLs, so I don't think
I was unreasonable.  If the BuildBot can compile them automatically, it
should be easy to use the latest.  If not... I'll work with you and the
GnuTLS developers to make it so.

>> I was gonna bring that up next :)  What does "semi-official" mean?  Can
>> I work with Christoph to include the GnuTLS DLLs or not?  If not, can we
>> add a notice to his binaries announcements to tell users where to find
>> prebuilt GnuTLS DLLs?

EZ> You (or anyone else) can find the prebuilt Windows binaries of
EZ> GnuTLS 3.0.9 here:

EZ>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/

That's not what I asked, though I truly appreciate the work you've
done.  I mean if I, the user, see that announcement, it would be
nice if it told me where to find the GnuTLS DLLs, and even nicer if they
came with the binary.

Ted