Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]> writes: > As the ABI broke anyway in 3.0, would it make sense to merge the > nettle and hogweed libraries?
Maybe as a build option, but not for a normal installation. > the advantage of the current split is only to > applications that only use libnettle. Nevertheless, I don't think > there are such applications. My guess is that the ones that simply > need sha1, would avoid linking to nettle and just copy the algorithms > they need internally. But I think those applications should use nettle... Adding a gmp dependency makes that less attractive. > In any embedded system using nettle+hogweed > would require more memory and overhead than having a single library. Could you put some numbers to that overhead? I can't say if it's worth trying to avoid. Regards, /Niels -- Niels Möller. PGP-encrypted email is preferred. Keyid C0B98E26. Internet email is subject to wholesale government surveillance. _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs
