Re: Possible fun project/todo list item?

[Mike Hearn]

> A better solution is to use the Mozilla Network Security Services
> (NSS). NSS is everywhere mozilla is and is much more mature.

Yes, that's another approach. Gaim did this though and then implemented 
support for GnuTLS as well, because having a chat program depend on a 
web browser was a bit odd and people were prone to go "Ooh look, a new 
Mozilla is out! rpm -e mozilla, tar xzvf mozilla-1.7.tar.gz" and such, 
and then their IM client mysteriously no longer connects to MSN.

I think it's better to depend on an actual library, as opposed to a 
component of another application. Maybe if Mozilla split it out into a 
separate project with separate releases, packaging etc, it might be 
better. Maybe they already have ...