On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Guenter wrote:
granted that my autobuild uses an ancient gnutls version 2.8.1, but shouldnt it then be rejected by configure if its not supported anymore? (f.e. we could test for the gnutls/abstract.h header)
docs/INTERNALS lists our lowest requirements for GnuTLS to be 1.2 which feels unnecessarily liberal, but in the case of 2.8.1 I think it breaks the build simply because of a mistake and nobody has tried to build with an older GnuTLS in a while.
The question is then of course if we should A) bump the GnuTLS requirement to something more modern and just check for that in configure, or if it makes sense to B) keep supporting the old version and fix the code instead?
GnuTLS 2.8.0 was released in May 2009 so it is *terribly* old. 2.10.0 came in June 2010.
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