Project direction

[Ergzay]

On Nov 2, 2020, at 2:16 PM, Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca> wrote:

> Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd <angus at magsys.co.uk> wrote:
> > OpenSSL is really aimed at two markets, developers using the API and
> > admins using the applications, it would be easier for both groups if
> > the help was separate.

> I think that the "admins using the application" has never been a target.
> While people build CAs using the shell scripts, my impression is that this
> has been a discouraged activity.

> This is one reason I'd like the tools split off into it's own git repo,
> so that it could evolve separately.

Even if it was actually the case that "admins using the application"
have never been the target, that is the primary use case as indicated
by questions on *overflow (eg stack overflow) sites. You can find very
few popular posts on said sites. This is also the case when searching
on google. Try googling "how do I X in Openssl" and you'll get many
articles discussing how to achieve various tasks using the command
line tools. The majority of users of openssl are actually users of the
openssl applications.