[PROPOSAL] Evict zlib

Simo simo at samba.org
Fri May 3 17:28:52 UTC 2019


If by removing you mean unbundling then that's a big +1

Simo.

On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 19:23 +1200, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical
wrote:
> It was recently pointed out that unused cryptography can be a pain for
> users of our tarball.  I also recently did some work[1] where we
> documented the location of cryptography in Samba.
> 
> With GnuTLS being a requirement now, I think zlib is also a reasonable
> requirement and removing it would also remove some bad and un-used
> crypto from the tree.
> 
> What do folks think?
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.com/catalyst-samba/samba-docs/wikis/cryptography/where-is-the-raw-crypto-implemented
> 




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