On 20 Mrz., 17:27, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2012-03-20 15:12, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > > Sage requires SSL, otherwise Python's hashlib module won't work. > > > I think this is a non-trivial dependency of Sage. Is it known that this > > is a dependency? Should it be documented in the install guide? > > I'm slightly confused because we had some discussion on this mailing > list about removing GNUTLS and requiring OpenSSL. But if we already > require OpenSSL, there was not much to discuss...
Does *hashlib* really require SSL? I thought HTTPS (which requires SSL of course) wasn't strictly needed in Sage, but since it is omnipresent (many Python packages use it), it doesn't make sense to not have it. I.e., people frequently happen to notice they don't have _ssl *after* they've built Sage's Python package without SSL support. (Does the Python 2.7.x build *fail* without it?) IIRC there even used to be an optional (most probably meanwhile outdated) OpenSSL spkg. I have no idea what the situation is on [Open]Solaris and MacOS X... -leif -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
