Re: [HACKERS] GnuTLS support

On 11/28/2017 04:19 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 11/19/17 20:56, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>>   --with-ssl=(openssl|gnutls)
> 
> I'm not sure whether this is a great improvement.  Why upset existing
> build and packaging scripts?  The usual options style is
> --with-nameoflib.  We can have separate options and error if conflicting
> combinations are specified.

We already have a precedent in --with-uuid=LIB which has the backwards 
compatibility alias --with-ossp-uuid, so I think adding --with-ssl=LIB 
while keeping --with-openssl as an alias is consistent with that. I also 
think the code and the interface ended up pretty clean when I added 
--with-ssl in my latest patch.

The only issue I see with --with-ssl is Window's config.pl which might 
end up a bit ugly to support '$config->{openssl} = "path";' as a legacy 
alias.

Andreas