On 2007-09-21 at 23:45:49 [+0200], Raymond C. Rodgers <obos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ingo Weinhold wrote: > > > > I don't think we will put it in our repository. There's no reason to do > > that; > > it would just add the additional work of keeping it in sync. > > > Ah, ok. There was talk on this list about including it in the repository > as recently as April 2007, so I thought it was something that was > already decided on. Not to start an argument for including it, but (you > saw it coming! :-) ) it doesn't necessarily have to be updated on a > regular basis, and it provides a common library for multiple developers' > use instead of making the developers track down a copy to include with > their apps or passing that task on to their users. Most Linux distros > and OpenBSD (sister project of OpenSSL) do pretty much the same thing; > in fact, my installation of OpenBSD 4.1 has OpenSSL 0.9.7j instead of > 0.9.8e which came out a few months earlier... I'm all for a common place where ported applications or libraries are available in source and compiled form -- a revived GeekGadgets, if you want. I just don't think the Haiku repository should be that place. Something like http://tools.assembla.com/BePorts/ looks promising to me, though. CU, Ingo