Re: [Gimp-developer] New GIMP configure warning/error

[Pat David <patdavid gmail com>]

Is it not possible to invoke the default browser and hand off the https
responsibility to it?
On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 8:05 AM Kristian Rietveld <kris loopnest org> wrote:

> > On 13 May 2017, at 14:52, Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>
> wrote:
> > > You realize that for platforms other than Linux, that if you wish to
> install
> > > glib-networking, you have to install
> >
> > Yes I realize that dependencies have often dependencies themselves.
> > Unless there is something which proves to be impossible to compile on
> > other platforms, I don't see the problem.
>
> A possible problem is that all of these extra dependencies have to be
> shipped in macOS and Windows packages. If in any of these dependencies
> serious bugs (e.g. security) are found, we need to ship updated packages. A
> problem like this does not exist on Linux since you would typically simply
> update the distribution packages (although not sure how that will work for
> Flatpak).
>
> A potential solution could be to write a Mac-specific GIO TLS backend that
> depends on macOS system libraries which can be shipped instead of the
> default TLS backend that depends on gnutls.
>
>
> regards,
>
> -kris.
>
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