[openssl-dev] OpenSSL version 1.1.0 pre release 1 published

[Richard Levitte]

In message <20151222111022.44086nc6688vq6by at www.polarhome.com> on Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:10:22 +0100, Zoltan Arpadffy <zoli at polarhome.com> said:

zoli> Richard,
zoli> 
zoli> > My plan for "new and shiny" is based on perl, running Configure and
zoli> > have it generate a top level descrip.mms.  Requirements will be a perl
zoli> > installation (minimum version 5.12) plus Text::Template.
zoli> 
zoli> Thank you for the information.
zoli> 
zoli> I am aware that having perl installed on a modern operating system is
zoli> not a very tough requirement - but experience shows that external
zoli> dependencies often cause problems on OpenVMS.

For perl, it's not that hard: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsperlkit/files/

zoli> I would suggest to include/commit the perl scripts into the OpenSSL
zoli> source code (for developers convenience only), but they should be ran
zoli> and commit the OpenVMS descrip.mms build files matching the current
zoli> code base - as a step in the OpenSSL source code release process.

I was thinking that it might be a good idea to bundle Text::Template,
if that's what you meant.  We try to make sure to only use core perl
modules, but considering there's no template module among the core
ones and I hardly want to reinvent the wheel, I might make an
exception there.  I haven't decided, though, it's not like it's very
hard to do a "cpan download Text::Template" and then install it
(unfortunately, "cpan install Text::Template" doesn't work because
there's a lack of action lines in the test: target it its Makefile,
and mms isn't too happy about that...)

zoli> Unix make files are also made in forehand. Right?

Nope.

zoli> What is your opinion about this?

Considering there's Alpha, IA64 and VSI is building VMS for x86_64,
and let's not forget pointer size options, the different possible
configurations is already not a small number, and will only increase.
How many variants of descrip.mms did you want?

So, uhmm, nah.  Frankly, it's time (it's been time for long) for the
OpenVMS community to catch up with the rest of the world re open
source building...  or for someone to produce OpenSSL install kits
(it's possible that the vms-ports effort will do so, possibly by yours
truly... no promises, though).

zoli> > zoli> Do you need some help with coding, testing?
zoli> >
zoli> > Yes please.
zoli> 
zoli> Please, let me know how... or should I just wait for the make files
zoli> release?

I'll have a branch in git at github.com:levitte/openssl.git
I'll get back when it starts going live.

Cheers,
Richard

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Richard Levitte         levitte at openssl.org
OpenSSL Project         http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/