> > Where do you have those two choices? Does some server offer both > WinNT4 > and WinNT5 flavors of the same version of NSS (e.g. 3.11.0) ? > Yes, you should know the server, it's ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/ :)
> > I beleive I read somewhere that the WINNT4.0 version was > > supposed to be the misnamed WIN95 / WIN32 version, and that this > > version was recommended for use in currently being developed > > applications. > > Wherever you read that, it was wrong. (Even if *I* wrote it. :) > As I said, I thought that was the case. However, I have also been wrong before. ;) > Like NSPR, NSS has both Win95 and WinNT flavors. When the WinNT > flavor is built on a real NT 4.0 OS, the directory comes out named > WINNT4.0. When the WinNT flavor is built on WinXP (or Win2k, I > think) > it comes out named WinNT5.0. Either way, it's the WinNT flavor, and > it > must use the WinNT flavor of NSPR. The Win95 flavor of NSS must use > the Win95 flavor of NSPR. > That may explain why the NSS versions 4.0 and 5.0 are (99%) equal. But somehow I doubt that... I did a binary compare of the two ZIP files, and only in the zip header (I think - I'm no expert) a few bytes are different. They seem to have the exact same content. > > mozilla client products always use the Win95 flavor on Win9x,ME,NT,2k,2003 > and XP. NSS-based server products that run on WinNT,2K,2003 and/or XP > generally use the WinNT flavor of NSS and NSPR, because it's compatible > with "Fibers" (light weight threading commonly used in Windows servers). > Ok, I'll switch to using the WINNT release for NSPR (and 5.0 for NSS) then. > > I'm not aware of any single release that is available in both of those > WinNT forms. Sometime in the last year, the contributor of the WinNTx.0 > builds switched from building on NT 4.0 to Win2003 (IIRC), so builds > made before some date should be WinNT4.0 and after that date WinNT5.0. > I'd be a little surprised if both sets of builds existed for the same > exact version of NSS. (But I've been surprised before. :) > Both 3.11.0 builds are from december 16th, on the server mentioned above. :) > > Is the WIN95 release for NSS missing? > > Yes, AFAIK. > > I think we need contributed builds of Win95 flavor NSS and NSPR. > The current contributor of the WinNT flavor builds is not interested > in also offering Win95 flavor builds. > That's not really a problem, but I got confused by the statement in NSPR's README file. I thought I should be using NSS's WIN95 release too. Thanks! Michiel van Meersbergen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
