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[Help-gnutls] Re: 1.2.9 release candidate
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Daniel Stenberg |
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[Help-gnutls] Re: 1.2.9 release candidate |
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Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:38:16 +0100 (CET) |
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Simon Josefsson wrote:
Of course I can make a configure-check for them, but it would be nice with
some simple preprocessor magic...
I think a configure check is the simplest solution available. If you don't
want to pollute your source code with #ifdef's, you could have configure
define those two symbols to 0 if they aren't defined by gnutls.h.
Of course. But my argument was not so much of concern of how the #ifdefs will
look in my code (libcurl being massively portable we have #ifdefs all over
already), it is how my code figures out what the installed GnuTLS supports or
not. (Or in this case, what the headers contain or not.)
In OpenSSL land, I've almost always been able to avoid checking for version-
specific features in configure by using preprocessor magic such as checking
for specific version numbers etc. Like this:
#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x0090581fL
#define HAVE_SSL_GET1_SESSION 1
#else
#undef HAVE_SSL_GET1_SESSION
#endif
I usually want to make the core code look good for the latest-and-greatest
features, and work around missing functionality in earlier releases through
some replacement stuff in configure.
Well, you could easily just add a simple define in the header file next to the
enums that we could #ifdef with to figure this out.
Or if you'd have a numerical version define (like OpenSSL and others) we could
do a numerical check like above.
By ducking for this, you force every single GnuTLS-user out there to add
feature-checks to our configure scripts. It might not bother you as author of
the lib, but it bothers me and I see this in the big perspective and how this
will affect us in the long run and how this will make our configure scripts
having to check for more and more features should more of these things occur
later on. (And I actually consider that more likely than that _no_ more such
things will occur.)
Please reconsider.
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- Re: [Help-gnutls] 1.2.9 release candidate, Daniel Stenberg, 2005/11/01
- Re: [Help-gnutls] 1.2.9 release candidate, Daniel Stenberg, 2005/11/01
- [Help-gnutls] Re: 1.2.9 release candidate, Simon Josefsson, 2005/11/01
- [Help-gnutls] Re: 1.2.9 release candidate,
Daniel Stenberg <=
- [Help-gnutls] Re: 1.2.9 release candidate, Simon Josefsson, 2005/11/01
- [Help-gnutls] Re: 1.2.9 release candidate, Daniel Stenberg, 2005/11/01
- [Help-gnutls] Re: 1.2.9 release candidate, Simon Josefsson, 2005/11/01
- [Help-gnutls] Re: 1.2.9 release candidate, Daniel Stenberg, 2005/11/01
- [Help-gnutls] Re: 1.2.9 release candidate, Simon Josefsson, 2005/11/01
Re: [Help-gnutls] 1.2.9 release candidate, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2005/11/01