On 3/20/12 12:39 PM, leif wrote:
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outdated) OpenSSL spkg.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...
I've never had a problem with having hashlib on OSX 10.6.8, and I don't
think I installed any new libraries to get it. I think I concluded a
long time ago that this was a non-issue on OSX (10.6).
Jason
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