On 21 February 2015 at 18:38, Konstantin Ritt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2015-02-21 22:05 GMT+04:00 Richard Moore <[email protected]>: > >> >> On 21 February 2015 at 17:34, Konstantin Ritt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 2015-02-21 21:30 GMT+04:00 Richard Moore <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> Here's an outline of stuff I'd like to see get done in the Qt 5.6 time >>>> frame: >>>> >>>> * Complete removal of openssl 0.9.8 support >>>> >>>> This has been unsupported for a while and was really only retained >>>> since it is the only version apple ship on OS X (though they don't actually >>>> recommend using it). Qt 5.5 introduces the new SecureTransport backend for >>>> SSL so there's now no good reason to continue having all the ifdefs. >>>> Openssl 0.9.8 will reach EOL in December anyway. In addition to removing >>>> the support from the sources, I suspect this will involve some changes to >>>> how the library is searched for when we use dlopen. >>>> >>> >>> To me, it looks like a subject for 5.5. Why not? >>> >>> >> 5.5 is already feature frozen. >> > > The SecureTransport backend has been already introduced - that's a > feature, a dep. library version bump is not :) > Well, IMO. > > This way we have a whole release cycle for people to try the SecureTransport backend and report any problems, much as I'd love to remove the 0.9.8 code already (after all I've already said I won't support it quite some time ago) I think this is a reasonable balance. Cheers Rich.
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