[gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: standalone binary

Simon Josefsson jas@extundo.com
Sat Mar 2 11:11:01 2002


On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Neil Spring wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:52:24AM +0200, Nikos Mavroyanopoulos wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:25:56PM -0800, Neil Spring wrote:
> > 
> > > > > how does that differ from gnutls/src/cli?
> > > > By not being installed in $(prefix)/bin/.
> > > Then I think including it is an excellent idea: it would
> > > save applications like wmbiff from including print_info
> > > (which can change somewhat often) to debug users' ssl
> > > connections.
> > 
> > Any suggestions on the name to use? Does 'tls_cli' sound
> > ok?
> 
> Perhaps "gnutls_client" would be more specific?  If that's
> too long, tls_cli seems fine.

Keeping within 8+3 might be a good idea.  What about simply "gnutls"?

It would be nice if the command line parameters changed as little as
possible as well, so that it is possible to use it from scripts without
first checking which version is installed.