Le 06/03/2012 20:03, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Pierre Labastie wrote: >> Actually the instructions in the book for wget have a >> configure switch '--with-ssl=openssl', while openssl >> is optional. Furthermore, the "command explanations" >> say that this switch may be omitted if https is not >> needed, which is wrong: configure exits with an >> error unless the '--without-ssl' switch is given, if >> neither openssl nor gnutls is not present. > Actually there has been some disagreement in the past about Recommended > vs Optional dependencies. Some have argued that there should be no > Recommended dependencies. Others, like me, think that it is up to the > editor. Do you need it for jhalfs? > Well, I would not want to try to impose some choice because of jhalfs. I hope to be able to automate some testing of the book using jhalfs, and if the instructions reflect required and recommended dependencies, jhalfs should do a good job. But jhalfs cannot run ./configure --help and decide what to do. Now my preceding message had two parts (sorry for that): one telling that openssl might be recommended for web access programs like wget or lynx, which is just a personal thought, the other telling that wget instructions are broken if they should reflect 'required+recommended' dependencies (no required/recommended dependency implies that the switch should be --without-ssl). One of you might want to fix it. I could even make a patch, but I am not sure my English is good enough to edit the book.
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