Package: gnutls Severity: wishlist As you can see below, the Debian GnuTLS packages does not contain the gnutlsxx.h C++ header file, or even the libgnutlsxx.so library as far as I can tell. How about putting gnutlsxx.h in libgnutls-dev and libgnutlsxx.so in libgnutls26?
/Simon Giuseppe Scrivano <gscriv...@gnu.org> writes: > Hi Simon, > > I was working on this task today, but unfortunately I noticed that the > gnutlsxx header is not distributed by Debian/Ubuntu (don't know about > other distro's) so I can't use it right now. Are you aware of this > problem? > > Cheers, > Giuseppe > > > > Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> writes: > >> Giuseppe Scrivano <gscriv...@gnu.org> writes: >> >>> Thanks Simon :) >>> >>> Before using gnutls, myserver was using OpenSSL for HTTPS, this is the >>> reason why now we are using the gnutls-openssl wrapper. Switch to the >>> native gnutls API is in our plans but I didn't know that there are C++ >>> bindings. Are they part of the official GNU TLS package or they are >>> offered separately? >> >> They are part of the official GnuTLS package, and has been for some >> time, but not documented. You can see the header at: >> >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnutls.git/tree/lib/includes/gnutls/gnutlsxx.h >> >> I'm not a C++ programmer so I don't know much about it, but I think it >> would be useful if a C++ application programmer like you tried to use it >> and provided feedback on it. I will certainly try to help as best I >> can. >> >> /Simon >> >>> Regards, >>> Giuseppe >>> >>> >>> Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> writes: >>> >>>> Congratulations on the 0.9 release! :) >>>> >>>> I looked into MyServer's https support, and noticed that it is using the >>>> gnutls-openssl wrapper library, which is somewhat under-maintained at >>>> the moment. It may be better to switch over to the native GnuTLS API? >>>> Since MyServer appears to be written in C++, I'm wondering whether you >>>> have looked at GnuTLS's C++ library and bindings? libgnutlsxx.so is not >>>> widely used as far as I know, so there could be rough edges, but I think >>>> it would be a good test case to see if you can make it work. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
