What to do about libidn?

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 11/09/2016 07:02 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> In the broader picture, I think we should discourage out-of-tree
> ports and functionality as much as possible because if something is
> not part of regular builds because it's not in the official source
> tree, we might only learn about fundamental incompatibilities after a
> release or two, which would be annoying.  So I'd suggest the remove
> the add-on mechanism eventually.

Agreed.

I would also vote for out-of-tree functionality to be removed.

Users can simply have cloned trees with their own patches, and help
in the overall library maintenance or work with upstream to integrate
their changes.

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Cheers,
Carlos.