On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:25:52AM -0700, Steven Edwards wrote: > Hi, > > --- Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > --Michael Chang
