On Apr 2, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
>
>> But I'd like to stress out that having OpenSSL singled out in build
>> process just because that used to be this way is not the cleanest
>> design of this configuration feature.
>
> It wouldn't be "singled out". It would be first in a list sorted in
> a prio order.
>
>> In your proposition how would one build curl with NSS support; --
>> without-openssl and --with-nss ?
>
> I'd prefer to have --with-nss take precedence over no option at all
> so thus
>
> ./configure --with-nss would pick NSS
>
> ./configure --with-gnutls would pick GnuTLS
>
> ./configure --with-ssl would scan over all known libs and pick the
> first that
> works

Sensible defaults are key. What you are proposing is the way that I
would expect a well thought-out configure script to work.

Cheers,

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