From 3e9c2924d6058dda708aa95e1898f70b22b46461 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 11:43:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs/DEPRECATE.md: deprecate gskit 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 --- docs/DEPRECATE.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/DEPRECATE.md b/docs/DEPRECATE.md index b7afb3a732..7e140cd5d6 100644 --- a/docs/DEPRECATE.md +++ b/docs/DEPRECATE.md @@ -40,6 +40,18 @@ We remove support for building curl with the NSS TLS library in August 2023. 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 -- 2.47.2