Le jeudi 26 octobre 2017 11:57:44 UTC+2, Erik Bray a écrit : > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Emmanuel Charpentier > <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > > > Le mercredi 25 octobre 2017 18:10:02 UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : > >> > >> On 2017-10-25 18:01, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > >> > Your inputs, please ? > >> > >> I think it is completely pointless. And it's never going to work in > >> practice... nobody is going to want to maintain that branch. > > > > > > Maybe people that think that it is oh, sooo important to be able to > build > > Sage without (Open)SSL support, that they want us to maintain patches > > _agains_ software that _needs_ SSL ? > > Hi there, > > No need for the exaggeration. I don't personally think it's so > important to be able to build Sage without SSL support.
So do I ;-). But some people think it is important, and they may have a use case where they are right. > For myself I > don't care, because I will never be affected by this issue. As I keep > saying R is the only package giving us any trouble at all at the > moment, and in insisting that R should be able to build without SSL > I'm only trying to help *you*. > This I understood. I'm just a) extremely skeptic about the possibility of haviog the R Core Team reverse its decision, and b) skeptic about the usefulness of reversing a decision tha aims to offr a (slightly) enhanced security. You don't want to have to "maintain a > patch" and I'm just saying ideally nobody should have to patch R just > to be able to build it without an effectively optional dependency :) > > Heck, go ahead even and drop that patch if you want, just as long as > there are clear instructions for OSX users how to build. > Indeed : I'm relying on people with knowledge of Mac OS X and its shenanigans (a. k. a. "our Mac heads") for that. PS : since I've modified my plans <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/fsbMaBe1jU8/cMK_pbFxBwAJ> a bit, I'll need to give a hint to people who insist on building Sage (including R) without OpenSSL. That was my point in suggesting a dedicated branch. Do you have alternatives to suggest ? Sincerely yurs, -- Emmanuel Charpentier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
