On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:

>> 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?

That could work, but I'd rather proceed as I already have explained and I
don't see how that would need any warnings at all!

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