On 2011-11-24 15:52 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Nov 22, 2011, at 19:50, Eric A. Borisch wrote: > >> OpenSSL's license negatively impacts the usefulness of the binary >> distribution process within MacPorts. > > I also just found out about this: > > http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2011/08/mac-os-x-lion-and-openssl.html > > It says Apple has deprecated the use of OpenSSL as of Lion and may remove it > entirely in a future OS version, and suggests that developers use Apple's own > Common Crypto instead. It's apparently available starting in Leopard, so if > we wanted to do that, it wouldn't be too awful for backward compatibility. > (Lots of ports are already broken on Tiger for other reasons.)
CommonCrypto is there on Tiger; we use it for hashes (and did during the period where the code for doing them with OpenSSL was removed). How does the difficulty of converting OpenSSL-using code to CommonCrypto compare to GnuTLS or NSS? - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
