Re: Transition of packages from system-openssl-dev
David Reiser <[email protected]>
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On 10/14/2015 12:23, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> On Oct 14, 2015, at 09:13, Daniel Macks <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:58:58 -0500, Hanspeter Niederstrasser >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear Fink Developer, >>> As you may be aware, OS X 10.11 does not provide a full install of OpenSSL >>> in /usr (it only has the dylib, but not the headers). Therefore, the >>> package system-openssl-dev is no longer available on 10.11. To fill this >>> dependency gap, packages must transition to a Fink package that provides >>> SSL functionality (like openssl100 or gnutls28). I've added a list of all >>> packages that are currently using system-openssl-dev in the 10.9-libcxx >>> tree to the Fink wiki: >>> >>> http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:Policy:system-openssl#Deprecation_of_system-openssl-dev >> Thanbks for checking into this! If a package has the option of building >> to use either openssl or gnutls, any feel for which way I should go >> with it? >> >> dan >> >> -- >> Daniel Macks >> [email protected] >> >> > I’ll include the maintainer of record for gnutls*, since it looks like we’re a bit behind on that—and there’s even a 3.4.x series. > > Clearly, if a package is going to be restricted from binary redistribution if OpenSSL is used, then gnutls is the way to go. > If licensing isn’t an issue, OpenSSL has a smaller dependency tree, so my inclination is to prefer it in such cases to cut down on user carping. > gnutls doesn't follow anyone's convention that I know of. I'll have to double-check, but I believe 3.3.x is 'current stable' and 3.4.x is 'next in line, but still developmental'. That said, we're still behind. I'll see if I can get it built in a fresh 10.11 tree. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel