[Pidgin] #16222: Consider dropping support for either gnutls or libnss

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#16222: Consider dropping support for either gnutls or libnss
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 Reporter:  MarkDoliner                          |       Owner:  EionRobb
     Type:  task                                 |      Status:  new
Milestone:  3.0.0                                |   Component:
  Version:  2.10.9                               |  unclassified
 Keywords:  tls ssl nss libnss gnutls            |  Resolution:
  certificate certificates x509                  |
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Comment (by MarkDoliner):

 >Have we provided a fix for gnutls yahoo users yet?

 No (#16172). I still think problems like this are not enough of a reason
 to continue supporting both libraries.

 > Or using SChannel on Win32 (I've started writing a plugin for this)

 So that's maybe some justification for keeping the ssl code in a plugin.

 I'm pretty unhappy with the pluganizable aspect of our ssl and certificate
 code. It's much more complicated than it needs to be. Using preprocessor
 defines and #ifdef more and not using auto-loading plugins would help
 some.

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