[Privoxy-devel] Release date for Privoxy 3.0.29

[Fabian Keil]

Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote on 2020-11-18:

> On 11/18/20, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> > I'd like to release Privoxy 3.0.29 stable in the near future,
> > preferably on 2020-11-28.
> >
> > Would this work for everyone?
> 
> It depends..  A new release without TLS interception enabled - yes,
> works for me.

Great.

> A new release with TLS interception enabled - I need help with how to
> enable brotli decompression, how to include openssl libraries etc. &
> which version of software to use.

Maybe we should take the opportunity to rethink the whole
build workflow for Windows. I don't think we should delay the
release for this, though.

It would be great if future Privoxy binaries for Windows would
use a recent and dynamically-linked pcre version so we can finally
ditch the obsolete pcre copy in git (TODO item #142).

Once we have figured out how to ship Brotli and MbedTLS
libraries adding another one is probably trivial.

We can't use OpenSSL on Windows because the "special exception"
from section 3 of the GPLv2 does not apply.

Many other free software projects cross-compile for Windows:
https://www.gpg4win.org/build-installer-gnulinux.html
https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-build.git/tree/README
https://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile/

Maybe we should do this as well.

Fabian
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