Re: TLS implementation

Jerry James writes:

 > While I am enjoying the new job,

Great!  Whatever comes first for you, do it first. :-)

 > > (0) I think we ought to default this feature on.
 > 
 > I think that's great.  Mats and I talked about doing some configure
 > magic to prevent using pre-1.0.0 versions of openssl.  There was a
 > patch floated on xemacs-beta if I remember correctly.  That should
 > probably go in, as the openssl support won't work with 0.9*
 > versions.

Noted.

 > > (4) Once (3) is done, I believe that tls.c doesn't need to be compiled
 > >     or linked if configured --without-tls.  Any reason not to do the
 > >     usual Makefile dance for conditionally compiled modules that you
 > >     know of?
 > 
 > No, I can't think of any.  I like this idea.  Feel free to ask me to
 > review any proposed changes.

OK, thanks.  I won't get to it until this weekend in any case (and
unless you've moved a very long way, my weekend starts most of a day
earlier than yours ;-) but of course the "Great! ..." comment still
applies.  If it takes "a couple days" to a week, you'll still be faster
than me!  No hurry. :-)