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Re: SSL Support Other than OpenSSL?

From: Piotr Dobrogost <pd_at_curlpp.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:41:28 +0200

Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:

>> for the feature you proposed and I would change current --with-ssl to
>> --with-openssl.
>
> I don't. To me, backwards compatibility and "working the same as the
> previous versions" is a very dear concept that I go very far to
> maintain. Thus --with-ssl should remain and it should pritoritize
> openssl even with my suggested changes, to remain working the exact same
> way for the existing users who use --with-ssl and thus have OpenSSL
> installed.

How about adding warning about the change of meaning of --with-ssl
option in a couple of releases before the actual change?

-- 
Piotr Dobrogost
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Received on 2009-04-02