On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:29:34 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) Mark Crispin 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

MC> >  Is there any reason to not do the same thing you did in SSL code for
MC> > Kerberos code as well? My program doesn't currently support it anyhow but
MC> > I'd like to add support in the future if possible -- but without making it
MC> > impossible to run it under the Kerberos-less versions of Windows.
MC> 
MC> Considering how many variants of Windows there are, and the resulting DLL
MC> hell, I don't want to even pretend.  Either it's the old way or the new
MC> way.

 Again, I perfectly understand that you don't want to support Kerberos on
old systems, but all I want is to allow the program to run there _without_
Kerberos support -- but still have it under W2K. Would you know how Pine
deals with this problem BTW?

MC> >  I know that it's currently impossible, but it doesn't seem to be that hard
MC> > to make it possible: simply rename all driver functions ssl_xxx() to
MC> > ssl_nt_xxx() and ssl_w2k_xxx() and provide ssl_xxx() wrappers which would
MC> > route to either NT or W2K version depending on which one is available. Is
MC> > there any obvious reason for which this couldn't work?
MC> 
MC> It won't start on the old systems if the W2K version is in the binary.

 Well, if the code was written in the same way as ssl_nt.c, i.e. loaded the
libraries dynamically, it would start -- or is there something I'm missing
again?
 
 Thank you for your explanations,
VZ

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