Re: libressl status

["Sevan / Venture37" <venture37%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 8 April 2015 at 03:13, Sevan / Venture37 <venture37%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On 7 April 2015 at 12:56, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
>> Certainly it sounds like fixing upstream packages is good progress, but
>> why do you think that needs to be ordered with making libressl available
>> under a subprefix?
>
> Because whether you import LibreSSL or not, some issues will become a
> problem anyway with the next release of OpenSSL. You also don't wan't
> to be switching back and forth between LibreSSL integration &
> addressing packages using removed functionality.
>
>>> I'd personally like to see a complete switch to LibreSSL however it is
>>> not currently possible due to do that with all the operating systems
>>> we support in pkgsrc e.g AIX or IRIX. It is likely that both will
>>> co-exist for some time.
>>
>> Agreed on that both will likely coexist for a long time.  That argues
>> for the subprefix (for one or the other) approach.  Do think that's the
>> right thing to do?
>
> Yes, but I'd like to see the one or the other approach rather than
> trying to make the two exist side by side, on operating systems such
> as OS X that could mean 3+ versions on one system, which is ugly.

Just as an update
Python 2.7.10 is out now which includes support for LibreSSL
https://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/15c95b7d81dc/Misc/NEWS
Heimdal also supports LibreSSL now thanks to the work by Bernard Spil
in both cases.


Sevan