On 2015-03-22 20:47, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > We should totally ship a newer version of curl and openssl or gnutls with > MacPorts, like we already ship a version of Tcl.
I don't think it is worth to invest resources into this. The usual policy is to support the latest two releases of OS X. Any release older than OS X 10.9 Mavericks should be considered legacy. Pulling more dependencies into base means we need to actively maintain them. This is especially critical for SSL libraries and a certificate bundle. I am afraid we would start to implement our own package management for the base of our package manger. One possible solution could be to use ports installed by MacPorts also for its base. However, that cannot be done at the moment. Maybe once we have a SAT resolver for dependencies we could have a special set of base dependencies that cannot be uninstalled. Also, I am reluctant to pull software into base that is not covered by a BSD license. OpenSSL has an advertising clause, GnuTLS is LGPL. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
