Matt Caswell <[email protected]> skrev: (19 februari 2016 14:12:28 CET) > > >On 19/02/16 13:03, Tomas Mraz wrote: >> On Pá, 2016-02-19 at 11:31 +0000, Matt Caswell wrote: >> >> >>> So it seems that for chil there may possibly be some rare use (but >>> even >>> the most recent evidence is 4 years old). However the OpenSSL dev >>> team >>> do not have access to this hardware to maintain the engine and (as >>> noted >>> above) this is currently not building in 1.1.0. >>> >>> In both cases I would like to remove these engines from 1.1.0. I'd >>> like >>> to hear from the community if there is any active use of these. One >>> option if there is found to be some small scale use is to spin out >>> the >>> engine into a separately managed repo (as has happened recently with >>> the >>> GOST engine). >>> >>> If I don't hear from anyone I will remove these. >> >> As far as I know there are some customers using the Chil engine with >> RHEL (openssl-1.0.1). > >How do you feel about the engine being spun out into a separate repo? >That of course assumes that a volunteer can be found to maintain it (I >don't believe anyone on the dev team wishes to do so).
Not so fast. I've my engine-corner on github that's intended for exactly this sort of thing. I'll happily help porting engines to become independent products. In my opinion, that will serve us all. Engine-corner is a personal project that has nothing to do with the team per se. Participation by anyone interested is welcome (frankly, engines that no one participates in *will* die, simple as that) > >If no such volunteer can be found how big a deal is it to remove it >from >1.1.0 without a replacement? Obviously it won't be taken out of >1.0.1/1.0.2. Of course there's no reason, even if we take it out now, >that if someone needs it badly enough in the future that they couldn't >forward port the 1.0.2 version to 1.1.0 and maintain it themselves at >that point. > >Matt > >-- >openssl-dev mailing list >To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev
