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Peter Hjalmarsson schrieb: |
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> This is about my beloved USE="ssl". A bit long and ranty, but if you |
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> want the consensus, just read the last part. |
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> Today a new snapshot of gnash was uploaded where the old USE="ssl" was |
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> renamed to USE="openssl". |
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> So yet another package where if you want ssl support you have to |
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> _personally_ audit what function this useflag has (i.e. does it enable |
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> ssl or tune the ssl implementation?). |
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> So I wanted to figure it out, does gnash provide ssl itself and the |
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> USE="openssl" only tunes how it is implemented or does USE="openssl" |
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> enable ssl? |
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The USE flag was renamed after discussion with upstream. Gnash does not |
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provide any SSL implementation itself and (when invoked as NPAPI plugin) |
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uses the browser's facilities. Possibly I could make more explicit that |
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users only interested in the plugin don't need it. |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |