On 03/01/2012, at 11:27 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Tuesday, 3 de January de 2012 10.57.11, craig.sc...@csiro.au wrote: >> Unfortunately, OpenSSL is not part of the LSB, so if you want SSL support on >> linux and you want your application to be LSB compliant, you end up having >> to link in the OpenSSL libraries statically. That's not necessarily a bad >> thing from a security point of view, but it is an annoyance. NSS, on the >> other hand, *is* in the LSB. If NSS was able to meet Qt's needs, then it >> would be useful to have a NSS backend. Obviously, if NSS has issues as you >> mentioned, then that makes it a bit of a moot point. I don't think GnuTLS >> is in the LSB, but the LSB navigator site is currently down so I can't >> easily check. > > I remember voicing my concerns about NSS when LSB decided to standardise on > it. The reason was then that Qt could *not* use NSS, since it was developed > in > the US.
Is it still a concern now though after the US changed it's export restrictions last year? -- Dr Craig Scott Computational Software Engineering Team Leader, CSIRO (CMIS) Melbourne, Australia _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development