On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:25:52AM -0700, Steven Edwards wrote:
Hi,
--- Mike Hearn m.hearn@signal.qinetiq.com wrote:
The downside is that while OpenSSL is frequently going to not be found as it's the wrong version, GnuTLS is also not widely installed by default so it might not get us much in the short term.
People concerned with getting Wine/SSL running with little space/bandwidth/CPU consumption will rather install another library (GnuTLS) than install mozilla just to get SSL support in wine.
A better solution is to use the Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS). NSS is everywhere mozilla is and is much more mature.
I just thought I'd mention that I don't use Mozilla, as it's performance I find is much too slow on my older system (yet IE over Wine or similar runs perfectly acceptable speeds, somehow) and a space/resource hog. I'd rather manually download GnuTLS libraries and use them with wine than install mozilla, which should be substanscially bigger - maybe 50 mb+? (I'm guessing here.)
A similar example? Manually downloading libao2 specially for use with mplayer. Why? For fine-tuned performance with little space cost.
Of course, including support for as many SSL programs/libraries as possible whilst including fallback coding (note: I'd prefer run-time detection, so we don't have to make stupid dependencies for wine under packaging systems such as debian or fedora/rpms... last thing we need is a new dummy package having wine depend on "wine-ssl-provider" being filled by something such as mozilla, firefox, openssl-<version> or GnuTLS...) would be amazing and useful.
Of course, I'm merely complaining here, but that's my two cents.
Thanks Steven
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