Re: [Exim] Who is using GnuTLS?

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Author: Greg Folkert
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Subject: Re: [Exim] Who is using GnuTLS?
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On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 10:17, Andreas Metzler wrote:
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> On 2004-02-26 Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
> > I have just started to look at the patch to GnuTLS to add CRL
> > functionality. It seems that it requires GnuTLS 1.0.x, which is now the
> > stable release. This release has some incompatibilities with the
> > previous 0.8.x stable releases.
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> using the gnutls8-compatibility mode
> (/usr/include/gnutls/compat8.h).
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> > Question: How many people are using 0.8.x and will be dismayed if the
> > next release of Exim supports only GnuTLS 1.0.x?
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> > In other words, how much is my time worth trying to maintain
> > compatibility? I *suspect* that there are only a few GnuTLS users at
> > present, as GnuTLS is relatively new. I don't want to waste time (this
> > is unexpected work as it is) for a GnuTLS release that is becoming
> > obsolete.
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> We at Debian use GnuTLS, but because I have switched exim4 to use
> GnuTLS 1.0.x three days ago on monday I don't care for 0.8.x
> compatibilty. - Feel free to drop it.
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> I think most other vendors are using OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS anyway.

Of course you can have multiple version available for Debian in testing
right now anyway... So either way it shouldn't matter.
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