Following numerous discussions on this list an various tickets, the issue of maintaining Sage-specific patches to various components of Sage emerged again about the proposed upgrade <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24026> of R to 3.4.2 (discussed here <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/rhMrNK_2c24>).
Since Trac#22189 <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22189>, installation of a systemwide opennssl is recommended (may be too strongly <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22620>, in the taste of some respectable Sage developers...). The proposed inclusion would entail : Deprecation of our OpenSSL-avidance patches Sta At compilation, research of a systemwide OpenSSL If found : do nothing -- 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 sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.