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

[Felix Paul Kühne]

Hello,

On 15.12.2013, at 19:10, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:

>>> 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.

I'd second this stance as there are corner-cases where you still might want to prefer GnuTLS over SecureTransport, i.e. if you store your custom certificates in a random folder instead within the system trust store (where they belong).

Best regards,

Felix