[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Add secure transport TLS module

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Sun Dec 15 19:10:31 CET 2013


On 15 Dec, David Fuhrmann wrote :
> IMO, it would make sense to have a configure switch to disable securetransport and enable gnutls if someone wishes. And for that, AFAIK we would need to touch configure.ac.

That is debatable...

> > And you probably need a separate patch to not build GnuTLS by default in
> > contrib on MacOS.
> 
> Should I send a patch with autoenabled securetransport (with or without a configure switch), and disable gnutls at the same time? Note that by disabling gnutls we would loose the tls server functionality for now.

No. You should set the priorities according to what makes sense and
build both on OSX, and only ST on iOS (since GNUtls is a hack on this
platform).

On Mac OS, they can choose the right dylib, if they want.

With my kindest regards,

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