Re: [pypy-dev] question re: ancient SSL requirement of pypy

2012-02-23 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi, Maybe we should write down some answers to these questions in a single place... On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 00:32, Dale Hubler wrote: > They did not tell me they wanted particular modules also, such as numpy. 'numpypy' is already included in a baseline PyPy but is only a partial implementation

Re: [pypy-dev] question re: ancient SSL requirement of pypy

2012-02-22 Thread Dale Hubler
Hi to all who answered me and thanks for the good assistance. I gave up on the binary distribution right off, and tried to build it from source on RHEL5. I had the most difficulty with the libffi part, I tried a server located directory, /usr/local, and finally /usr as my libffi installdir,

Re: [pypy-dev] question re: ancient SSL requirement of pypy

2012-02-21 Thread David Malcolm
On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 14:42 -0800, Dale Hubler wrote: > Hello, > > I was requested to install pypy but our computers appear to be too new > to run it, having libssl.so.0.9.8e among other newer items. This > confuses me because the web page for pypy shows a 2011 date and blog > entries from 20

Re: [pypy-dev] question re: ancient SSL requirement of pypy

2012-02-17 Thread Timothy Baldridge
>> Anyone can either install PyPy from his own distribution, or translate >> it from sources; or attempt to get one of our nightly binary packages, >> which may or may not work because it's Linux.  I think that this is >> what you get on Linux, and we will not try to find obscure workarounds >> (li

Re: [pypy-dev] question re: ancient SSL requirement of pypy

2012-02-17 Thread Leonardo Santagada
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Armin Rigo wrote: > Hi Leonardo, > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 15:55, Leonardo Santagada wrote: >> why not statically link everything and mark the pre built binaries a >> "security risk" or whatever and then they will just work. > > Anyone can either install PyPy fr

Re: [pypy-dev] question re: ancient SSL requirement of pypy

2012-02-17 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Leonardo, On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 15:55, Leonardo Santagada wrote: > why not statically link everything and mark the pre built binaries a > "security risk" or whatever and then they will just work. Anyone can either install PyPy from his own distribution, or translate it from sources; or atte

Re: [pypy-dev] question re: ancient SSL requirement of pypy

2012-02-17 Thread Leonardo Santagada
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > It's not PyPy requirement, it's the binary requirement. To be honest, > binary distribution on linux is a major mess. Fortunately for most > popular distributions there is a better or worse source of official or > semi-official way to ge

Re: [pypy-dev] question re: ancient SSL requirement of pypy

2012-02-14 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Dale Hubler wrote: > Hello, > > I was requested to install pypy but our computers appear to be too new to > run it, having libssl.so.0.9.8e among other newer items.   This confuses me > because the web page for pypy shows a 2011 date and blog entries from 2012. >

Re: [pypy-dev] question re: ancient SSL requirement of pypy

2012-02-13 Thread Justin Bogner
Dale Hubler writes: > I looked at the pypy site but cannot find any supported platforms, > install guide, etc. I am trying this on RedHat EL 5. I tried the > binary release, but it also had the same error, no libssl.so.0.9.8, > which is true, my systems are updated. I must be missing somethin

Re: [pypy-dev] question re: ancient SSL requirement of pypy

2012-02-13 Thread Bengt Richter
On 02/13/2012 02:42 PM Dale Hubler wrote: Hello, I was requested to install pypy but our computers appear to be too new to run it, having libssl.so.0.9.8e among other newer items. This confuses me because the web page for pypy shows a 2011 date and blog entries from 2012. Can 2005 SSL really

[pypy-dev] question re: ancient SSL requirement of pypy

2012-02-13 Thread Dale Hubler
Hello, I was requested to install pypy but our computers appear to be too new to run it, having libssl.so.0.9.8e among other newer items. This confuses me because the web page for pypy shows a 2011 date and blog entries from 2012. Can 2005 SSL really be a requirement, I am unable to insta