In message <fe9ed5f1-9f8f-792b-9f26-512af63ce...@openssl.org> on Thu, 7 Jun 2018 17:55:27 +0200, Andy Polyakov <ap...@openssl.org> said:
appro> > Regarding general use of other libraries, please think carefully before voting, 'cause this *is* tricky. If you have a look, you will see that we *currently* depend on certain standard libraries, such as, for example, libdl. appro> appro> One has to recognize that each dependency has to be justified. Yes, of course. Caution is advisable, always. appro> > And perhaps we should also mention the pile of libraries used with windows. appro> appro> It's not about amount, but ubiquity and stability. Windows is bad appro> example in the context, because it's rather "mono-cultural" environment. Yes, you're right, and I didn't really mean to make a serious argument about the amount, just pointing out that we already rely on standard / system libraries. appro> But *otherwise* thing is that we already *know* that those extra appro> libraries work. Or at least know what to expect and how to deal with appro> them on different platforms. They were effectively proven to work by appro> lasting through several releases and years-long bug ironing. This *is* appro> factor too. And that's what made me pose "is b) part of vote" in my last appro> post. I'll have you note that the PR that I'm pointing at still has an open question about how to deal with the problem of some systems not reliably support iconv. -- Richard Levitte levi...@openssl.org OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/ _______________________________________________ openssl-project mailing list openssl-project@openssl.org https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-project
