Re: [Evolution] Re: Mozillasupport

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 14:38, Sidney Markowitz wrote:
> Luis Villa <louie ximian com> said:
> > <shrug> show us an ssl library that doesn't have licensing issues, or
> > convince us that ssl isn't important, and we'll drop it.
> > Luis (good luck on either one of them)
>
> You may have a very good reason there, but you are about to freeze the code 
> and Mozilla is not. The best reasons in the world will not change the fact 
> that Evolution will become unusable with the next version number increment 
> in Mozilla.
>
> What about basing your ssl use on openssl, write to the API, and require 
> anyone who wants to use it to install openssl themselves? That way you can 
> make the dependency be on openssl version >= 0.96 and make installing ssl 
> support optional. That may be a bit of work but it's got to be better than 
> not being able to install it at all, which is what the dependency on an old 
> version of Mozilla will mean.

For better or for worse we are trying to provide a service that every
day, non-technical people can use. Installing their own version of
openssl is not an option, within that context. Sorry that there isn't
much of an option here.
Luis

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Luis Villa
Ximian Bugmaster
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