Re: NSS and gskit are getting the axe

2023-07-18 Thread Calvin Buckley via curl-library
Lack of easily available CI environments for i is by far the biggest pain point. I’ve been poking the IBM people I know to improve the situation. (The annoying thing it's harder to have a disposable environment, for reproducibility/security's sake. Even "just a box" is better than the current

Re: NSS and gskit are getting the axe

2023-07-18 Thread Patrick Monnerat via curl-library
On 7/19/23 01:11, Daniel Stenberg wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2023, Patrick Monnerat wrote: There's no CI for OS400 because 1) tests do no run on this platform; 2) is there an OS400 CI environment available ? I don't know. I don't see why there couldn't be? From replies from others (many thanks

Re: NSS and gskit are getting the axe

2023-07-18 Thread Patrick Monnerat via curl-library
On 7/19/23 00:52, Timothe Litt via curl-library wrote: With respect to CI: While I know little about OS400, Perldoc says that you *can *natively compile Perl with IBM's Visual Age compiler.   Most CPAN modules are either pure Perl, portable XS (a bunch of C macros), or provide a pure Perl

Re: NSS and gskit are getting the axe

2023-07-18 Thread Daniel Stenberg via curl-library
On Wed, 19 Jul 2023, Patrick Monnerat wrote: There's no CI for OS400 because 1) tests do no run on this platform; 2) is there an OS400 CI environment available ? I don't know. I don't see why there couldn't be? For 16 years, the OS400 port has been tested manually to all users'

Re: NSS and gskit are getting the axe

2023-07-18 Thread Dan Fandrich via curl-library
On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 12:30:02AM +0200, Patrick Monnerat via curl-library wrote: > No tests on OS400: would need perl among other features. These are available > under PASE which is an AIX emulation, but certainly not native OS400. If the tests won't even run there, then maybe you can convince

Re: NSS and gskit are getting the axe

2023-07-18 Thread Timothe Litt via curl-library
With respect to CI: While I know little about OS400, Perldoc says that you *can *natively compile Perl with IBM's Visual Age compiler.   Most CPAN modules are either pure Perl, portable XS (a bunch of C macros), or provide a pure Perl alternative.  Whether the tests depend on any exceptions

Re: NSS and gskit are getting the axe

2023-07-18 Thread Daniel Stenberg via curl-library
On Tue, 18 Jul 2023, Patrick Monnerat via curl-library wrote: I have made some local changes to gskit, in hope to save it form deprecation (modernize, TLS 1.3, ALPN). It compiles fine, but unfortunately I can't test it as the certificate store access is denied on pub400. This is why I did

Re: NSS and gskit are getting the axe

2023-07-18 Thread Patrick Monnerat via curl-library
On 7/18/23 17:03, Calvin Buckley wrote: Do you just need RO access to the certificate store, or writes too? If so, I might be able to get you access to a less restricted system. Well, RO access would be a huge asset! It would allow testing with the standard certificate store, thus access

Re: NSS and gskit are getting the axe

2023-07-18 Thread Calvin Buckley via curl-library
Do you just need RO access to the certificate store, or writes too? If so, I might be able to get you access to a less restricted system. > On Jul 18, 2023, at 11:50 AM, Patrick Monnerat via curl-library > wrote: > > > On 7/18/23 16:37, Calvin Buckley via curl-library wrote: >> I don’t have

Re: NSS and gskit are getting the axe

2023-07-18 Thread Patrick Monnerat via curl-library
On 7/18/23 16:37, Calvin Buckley via curl-library wrote: 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? I have made some local changes to

Re: NSS and gskit are getting the axe

2023-07-18 Thread Calvin Buckley via curl-library
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 > wrote: > > Hello, > > I

NSS and gskit are getting the axe

2023-07-18 Thread Daniel Stenberg via curl-library
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