Re: gnu: gnutls: Add gnutls-3.5.5 and gnutls-with-guile-next.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hello!
>
> Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Hello!  I was talking in #guile and realized that even though guile-next
>> now includes glorious https support via gnutls, few have tried it or
>> know how to use it.
>>
>> It turns out you need a specially packaged version of gnutls!  Or,
>> specially packaged until `guile-next' becomes just `guile'.
>>
>> Here's a patch that will give you that package.  You can give it a shot
>> like so:
>>
>>   $ guix environment --ad-hoc guile-next gnutls-with-guile-next --pure
>
> Good idea!  I ended up pushing a slightly different patch, calling the
> package ‘guile2.2-gnutls’ to match what ‘package-for-guile-2.2’ does:
>
>   
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=079f013be2a3601518a67d65f4e39f7fabddb053
>
> Let me know if anything’s wrong!

Yay!  Thanks for the push.  I'll test shortly.

>> Have fun hacking with https support,
>
> BTW, it would be nice :-) to port this to Guile as well:
>
>   
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=bc3c41ce36349ed4ec758c70b48a7059e363043a
>   
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=580deec5b44d623e994e59ef07e9e0c5496762fd
>
> Anyway, thanks for the heads-up!
>
> Ludo’.

Oh, those look important.  I've made a TODO item and I'll try to get to
them soon, but who knows if I will...