From: Alexander Bokovoy Date: 2003-07-17T17:45:01+09:00 Subject: Re: [Ann] OSSL 0.2.0-pre3 On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:09:49PM +0900, GOTOU Yuuzou wrote: > In message <20030716094730.GB16981@sam-solutions.net>, > `Alexander Bokovoy ' wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:34:21PM +0900, GOTOU Yuuzou wrote: > > > In message <20030715091319.GH30869@sam-solutions.net>, > > > `Alexander Bokovoy ' wrote: > > > > There is one problem ATM. It works only with OpenSSL 0.9.7*, anything > > > > earlier is incompatible while many people still use 0.9.6j. > > > > > > If a system depends on 0.9.6, but we can install a package > > > of ossl-0.1.x independently. I intend to continue maintenance > > > of OSSL1 as long as it needed. > > > > > > I made ossl-0.1.4a for OpenSSL-0.9.6. > > > > > > http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rubypki/ossl-0.1.4a.tar.gz > > > MD5 (ossl-0.1.4a.tar.gz) = 303d0473fdb1480a0936a5661d8ba8e3 > > Thank you very much, this is what I need actually. > > > > But regarding ossl merge into Ruby 1.8, can we get both versions added? > > extconf.rb could decide which to compile depending on available OpenSSL > > version. > > Hmm, isn't it too redundant? We haven't modified OSSL1 > except bugfixis for a year. I think it's hard to develop > both versions. I expect that OSSL1 is going to be in > maintenance track and it will become outdated. Let me reiterate the argument: there are bunch of systems which provide only OpenSSL prior to 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.6j is still considered stable by its developers (along with 0.9.7). If you look at http://rpm.pbone.net/ and search for openssl-*.src.rpm, you'll find that 0.9.7 is available only in RH9 and Mandrake 9.1 if we are speaking about big Linux distributions (and of course in their development branches). Everything earlier is using 0.9.6. SuSE 8.2 (latest) uses 0.9.6. Debian Woody has 0.9.6 too. Of course, development versions of these distributions might contain 0.9.7 (and most of them do so), but this is not an argument to drop support for 0.9.6 if ossl will be merged to Ruby 1.8. -- / Alexander Bokovoy --- Your depth of comprehension may tend to make you lax in worldly ways.