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docs/DEPRECATE.md: deprecate gskit
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Ref: curl#10163

- This is a niche TLS library, only running on some IBM systems
- no regular curl contributors use this backend
- no CI builds use or verify this backend
- gskit, or the curl adaption for it, lacks many modern TLS features
  making it an inferior solution
- build breakages in this code take weeks or more to get detected
- fixing gskit code is mostly done "flying blind"

Closes curl#10201
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Expand Up @@ -40,6 +40,18 @@ We remove support for building curl with the NSS TLS library in August 2023.
Starting in 7.82.0, building curl to use NSS configure requires the additional
flag `--with-nss-deprecated` in an attempt to highlight these plans.

## gskit

We remove support for building curl with the gskit TLS library in August 2023.

- This is a niche TLS library, only running on some IBM systems
- no regular curl contributors use this backend
- no CI builds use or verify this backend
- gskit, or the curl adaption for it, lacks many modern TLS features making it
an inferior solution
- build breakages in this code take weeks or more to get detected
- fixing gskit code is mostly done "flying blind"

## past removals

- Pipelining
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