A proposal for consideration; this may not be the best idea, but that's what discussions are for, right?
OpenSSL's license negatively impacts the usefulness of the binary distribution process within MacPorts. I propose moving openssl support to a non-default variant within the pythonNN ports. This will permit more of the packages that depend on python to be distributable through binary packages. I believe OpenSSL can be disabled (so it won't even grab system versions) with one line in setup.py. In python27's version, for example, by simply adding 'ssl_libs = None' at line 753. I've already started a ticket ( https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32188 ) that can be modified based on the results of any discussion here. Thanks, Eric -- Eric A. Borisch _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
