Re: TODO: GNU TLS

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>
Subject: Re: TODO: GNU TLS
Date: 2006-12-29 23:21:50
Message-ID: 1167434510.20777.14.camel@localhost.localdomain
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On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 17:57 -0500, Robert Treat wrote:
> On Friday 29 December 2006 14:49, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > > entirely.
> > >
> > > 4) GNUTLS development seems more active? OpenSSL has been in a
> > > frozen/mature state for a while. I don't understand why OpenSSL is still
> > > labelled as 0.9.x, which might indicate alpha quality, under heavy
> > > development.
> > >
> > > I don't find the reasons too compelling - but they are points to
> > > consider.
> >
> > 5) GNUTLS does not run well under all of our supported platforms.
> >
>
> given options like --enable-dtrace and --with-libedit-preferred, I don't find
> this argument compelling...

I don't like either of those options either.

Joshua D. Drake

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