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Re: NSS and gskit are getting the axe
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From: Calvin Buckley via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:37:47 -0300
I don’t have the time to become a curl maintainer, but I do have time
every so often to check if GSKit and curl in general are working on i.
Consider that a “don’t delete GSKit just yet.” NSS though?
> On Jul 18, 2023, at 8:41 AM, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have not received any loud complaints recently even after having repeatedly mentioned that this is going to happen in August 2023, so we now have two PRs pending:
>
> Remove NSS [1] and Remove gskit [2]
>
> Both backends are used sparesly in modern curl. In addition, the gskit one suffers badly from no tests/CI jobs.
>
> In total these two changes remove some 5,000 lines of code and docs.
>
> [1] = https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/11459
> [2] = https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/11460
>
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:37:47 -0300
I don’t have the time to become a curl maintainer, but I do have time
every so often to check if GSKit and curl in general are working on i.
Consider that a “don’t delete GSKit just yet.” NSS though?
> On Jul 18, 2023, at 8:41 AM, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have not received any loud complaints recently even after having repeatedly mentioned that this is going to happen in August 2023, so we now have two PRs pending:
>
> Remove NSS [1] and Remove gskit [2]
>
> Both backends are used sparesly in modern curl. In addition, the gskit one suffers badly from no tests/CI jobs.
>
> In total these two changes remove some 5,000 lines of code and docs.
>
> [1] = https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/11459
> [2] = https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/11460
>
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