Re: [PATCH] vnc: avoid deprecation warnings for SASL on OS X

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 at 14:15, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote
> VNC/SASL isn't going anywhere. It is fully supported on Linux and a
> critically important security feature.
>
> If macOS removes SASL, that sucks for macOS users, but then in that case I
> assume HomeBrew/MacPorts would bring it back to life, because SASL is an
> important feature for many apps.

Also, Apple marked these things deprecated 5 years ago and haven't
dropped them yet, so they're clearly not in a particular hurry...
(they probably mostly wanted to nudge mac-native apps onto whatever
their own-brand API for this is, would be my guess).

thanks
-- PMM