On 10/14/2015 12:23, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> On Oct 14, 2015, at 09:13, Daniel Macks <dma...@netspace.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:58:58 -0500, Hanspeter Niederstrasser
>> <f...@snaggledworks.com> wrote:
>> Dear Fink Developer,
>>> As you may be aware, OS X 10.11 does not provide a full install of OpenSSL
>>> in /usr (it only has the dylib, but not the headers). Therefore, the
>>> package system-openssl-dev is no longer available on 10.11. To fill this
>>> dependency gap, packages must transition to a Fink package that provides
>>> SSL functionality (like openssl100 or gnutls28). I've added a list of all
>>> packages that are currently using system-openssl-dev in the 10.9-libcxx
>>> tree to the Fink wiki:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:Policy:system-openssl#Deprecation_of_system-openssl-dev
>> Thanbks for checking into this! If a package has the option of building
>> to use either openssl or gnutls, any feel for which way I should go
>> with it?
>>
>> dan
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Macks
>> dma...@netspace.org
>>
>>
> I’ll include the maintainer of record for gnutls*, since it looks like we’re 
> a bit behind on that—and there’s even a 3.4.x series.
>
> Clearly, if a package is going to be restricted from binary redistribution if 
> OpenSSL is used, then gnutls is the way to go.
> If licensing isn’t an issue, OpenSSL has a smaller dependency tree, so my 
> inclination is to prefer it in such cases to cut down on user carping.
>
gnutls doesn't follow anyone's convention that I know of. I'll have to 
double-check, but I believe 3.3.x is 'current stable' and 3.4.x is 'next 
in line, but still developmental'. That said, we're still behind. I'll 
see if I can get it built in a fresh 10.11 tree.

Dave


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