> * Don't support unstable; only support stable > * Don't support unstable+ASM; require CRYPTOPP_DISABLE_ASM > * Fully support unstable
Three inter-related issues here: Issue 1: What does "support" mean? Empirically, it seems to mean that Jeffrey will spend his time reproducing and debugging crashes on unstable platforms. I would tend to vote against that, but I guess it is up to Jeffrey? Issue 2: On the other hand, if we set up a Buildbot then we could provide information to people about whether Crypto++ builds and passes tests on a variety of platforms, including unstable platforms, without a major ongoing expenditure of anyone's (Jeffrey's) time. That is: it is an expenditure of someone's time to set up a Buildbot for a specific platform, but it is a pretty low ongoing cost to keep it running after that. This would also let us know whenever a patch that we committed caused tests to go from passing to failing on any platform, which would be potentially valuable information. Issue 3: I am in favor of disabling ASM by default! I maintain a library built on top of Crypto++ — pycryptopp — which is used by “Tahoe-LAFS”, the cryptographic distributed storage system. We decided after collecting several years of data about bugs that the added bugginess of asm implementations was too much to justify the added performance: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/85 So in any case, I am *certainly* in favor of the smaller step of disabling asm on unstable platforms. You could imagine that enabling asm is a sort of opt-in step that only happens for specific platforms where it has been proven (perhaps with the aid of a Buildbot) to be safe. Regards, Zooko -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Crypto++ Users" Google Group. To unsubscribe, send an email to cryptopp-users-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More information about Crypto++ and this group is available at http://www.cryptopp.com. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Crypto++ Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cryptopp-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
