Ref: #10163
- This is a niche TLS library, only running on some IBM systems
- no regular curl contributors use this backend
- no CI builds use or verify this backend
- gskit, or the curl adaption for it, lacks many modern TLS features
making it an inferior solution
- build breakages in this code take weeks or more to get detected
- fixing gskit code is mostly done "flying blind"
Closes #10201
Starting in 7.82.0, building curl to use NSS configure requires the additional
flag `--with-nss-deprecated` in an attempt to highlight these plans.
+## gskit
+
+We remove support for building curl with the gskit TLS library in August 2023.
+
+- This is a niche TLS library, only running on some IBM systems
+- no regular curl contributors use this backend
+- no CI builds use or verify this backend
+- gskit, or the curl adaption for it, lacks many modern TLS features making it
+ an inferior solution
+- build breakages in this code take weeks or more to get detected
+- fixing gskit code is mostly done "flying blind"
+
## past removals
- Pipelining