From a6f20a1e0173f1309074c3175928eeb6ded28244 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Ralf S. Engelschall" Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:14:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Some issues for voting --- STATUS | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/STATUS b/STATUS index bb21443514..393fb66b92 100644 --- a/STATUS +++ b/STATUS @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 1998/12/31 09:36:11 $ + ______________ $Date: 1998/12/31 12:14:27 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE @@ -15,15 +15,51 @@ o Ben is folding in his patches - o Ralf has ported Stephen's pkcs12 program to OpenSSL (the - ASN.1 stuff Eric recently changed :-( ), but needs some - help from Stephen at two source locations. - - o Ralf is currently working on the final www.openssl.org - website. It'll use no longer frames and will be both look - perfect in Netscape 4.x _AND_ Lynx 2.7.x. - NEEDS PATCH OPEN ISSUES + o The installation under "make install" produces a very + installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's + not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either + to $prefix/etc/, $prefix/lib/ or $prefix/share. Alternatively + we could also not install the certs at all. + + Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and + moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/ + and $prefix/share. + + o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least + for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff + Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the + solution to be really simple. + + Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the + compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache + into the OpenSSL Configure script. + + o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's + totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date + with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice + Net::SSLeay package we can find under + http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a + longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be + to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a + Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for + us. + + Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay + and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up + to date. + + o Ralf has ported Stephen's pkcs12 program to OpenSSL (the + ASN.1 stuff Eric recently changed :-( ), but needs some help from + Stephen at two source locations. Stephen itself also has ported his + internal pkcs12 0.53 version to OpenSSL, but thinks we still shouldn't + incorporate it into OpenSSL because it needs more cleanups. Ralf still + thinks pkcs12 should be incorporated better now than later because it's + nasty to not have it in the core - one always has to install it + manually and a lot of people use it. So, should we incorporate it? + + Status: Ralf +1, Stephen -0 + -- GitLab