From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-11-17T03:12:37+09:00
Subject: Re: OpenSSL with One-click installer?

Austin Ziegler wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:22:20 +0900, Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> wrote:
> > I think having out-of-the-box ssl support is important. I
> bumped your bug
> > report to highest priority, and I'll try to get this included
> soon. I am, as
> > usual, severely over-committed so if there are any gotchas from
> those who
> > have installed OpenSSL on windows please pass them along.
>
> I was playing with the Windows Installer scripts a while back in the
> interest of making a gentoo-like Windows Installer build -- it would
> take longer, but be more complete and up to date, grabbing files from
> sources (it would remove issues with some extensions being compiled on
> VC6 and others on VC7), and building them. I didn't get very far --
> too many other things to do -- but I had no problems building OpenSSL
> out of the source download, IIRC.

Thanks for the OpenSSL report -- sounds like it should go smoothly.

In he long term I agree with you, the building process for the one-click
installer should really build everything from source. I think the current
mix of source-builds and binary-installs was pragmatic (no pun intended) as
a means of getting it out the door.

Curt