> > Duane Ryan wrote: > > So I noticed a while back that someone (ingo, p'raps?) had ported > > OpenSSL. This is great news--now things like https and ssh might be > > possible. But I also noticed that it wasn't in the core > > buildsystem. Why > > is this? I feel like SSL support is at the *core* of every > > operating > > system, even if it wasn't in r5 (it might have been, I haven't > > checked). > > > > So... at least have it be in there for R1, if not sooner? I'd hate > > to see > > Haiku R1 be insecure like that... > > As far as I know, Ingo is still hunting down bugs that prevent ssh > from > working. I think from there he will contibue with SVN, which is the > last > think preventing true self hosting. OpenSSL will probably come as a > part of > that. > > In any case, I would be pretty surprised if any developer here was > against > including OpenSSL and SSH and so on in the eventual first release. So > I > wouldn't worry. > Appart potential licencing issues (OpenSSL licence is GPL-incompatible IIRC, but I'm not sure how that would affect a whole distro) there is nothing against it I think. François.