Re: [RFC] Build OpenSSL Module by Default

On Mon, 3 Feb 2014, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > Build OpenSSL Module by Default > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/build-openssl-by-default > > Internal developers and application developers' life could be a lot easier > if OpenSSL can be used always. There are number of ways to work around w/o > it (e.g. use php_win32_get_random_bytes() (Windows) or reading > directly > from /dev/xrandom for random bytes), but life could be easier > with > openssl. e.g. Hardware AES, etc. > > Any comments for building openssl by default? Yes. It's an external library that, although most people will have, causes issues with distributing binaries. I would be in favour turning it on by default, but do I understand correctly that you want to make PHP hard-depend on it? cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine