Re: gnutls for win32

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 31 May 2013 10:50:52 +0200 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> 
wrote: 

NM> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I see that you now have ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/gcrypt/gnutls/w32/ with
>> automated builds. Is that going to be sustained long-term?  Should we
>> consider linking to your page and save the effort of producing our own
>> GnuTLS binaries?

NM>  There is no problem to link to that page. The binaries are often
NM> up-to date (no automated process exists), and I try to have at least
NM> binaries for the major releases. However, as mentioned before these
NM> binary releases are compiled but untested.

Could we set up some testing you can run when you produce them?

With Emacs this would be pretty easy: drop the DLL in a directory and
then run a small test of the GnuTLS integration.  No need to write shell
scripts or C code, and Emacs can produce the test report in whatever
format you prefer.  If you're making the binaries manually, this would
be pretty easy to hook into the build command sequence.

I can run the tests too, of course, but from your side you would be able
to see them fail and see the problem directly.

That would give us some assurance the binaries are OK.  Right now I'm
nervous about putting them out to Emacs users, so someone has to test
them.  If $someone=='Emacs developers' that's fine, we just need to
state it explicitly.

Thanks!
Ted