[guest - Sat Jul 3 15:13:43 2004]: > As of Apr 27 1998 the CA.sh script has been translated into perl (CA.pl) > by Steve Henson. There are some systems that don't have perl installed > by default (FreeBSD 5.x for example), so I back-translated the current > version of CA.pl back into CA.sh. Anyway, there are no reason for using > as strong tool as perl for this simple task despite of presence of the > perl within base system ...
Thanks for the backport. There is at least one reason for the perl translation. Some of the many platforms OpenSSL compiles on have will have perl installed (well by virtue of the fact that this is mandatory) but no bourne shell, Windows is one such case. Steve. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
