On Saturday January 21 2017 15:21:19 Marcus Calhoun-Lopez wrote: > The openssl dependency is one reason that qt5-qtcreator does not build on the > buildbots.
I never understood why one could distribute binaries of libraries that link to openssl but not of applications that use those libraries... > My current plan is to use Secure Transport instead and create an openssl > variant. > Unfortunately, my knowledge of Transport Layer Security is limited, so I do > not know if there are other considerations. https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/53369 With that patch in place, Qt's qtdiag application prints Network: Using "OpenSSL 1.0.2j 26 Sep 2016", version: 0x100020af Port:openssl now becomes a build+runtime dependency, which I reckon means we can simply leave it as a "standard" dependency. With that I think SecureTransport builds can still be considered, but as an optional variant that can be selected by users who have a specific reason to do so. R
