In message <[email protected]> on Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:29:27 -0500 (CDT), "Steven M. Schweda" <[email protected]> said:
sms> > From: Richard Levitte <[email protected]> sms> > sms> > > sms> http://antinode.info/ftp/openssl/1_0_0d/openssl-SNAP-20110321_s1.zip sms> > > sms> > > Just to clarify, you used openssl-SNAP-20110321.tar.gz for this? sms> > > That's a different branch than the one 1.0.0d comes from... sms> > sms> > Yes. (Or "openssl-SNAP-20110321^.tar.gz;1", as it's known around here.) sms> > [...] sms> > > If you worked on 1.0.0d before and now played with HEAD, it must be sms> > > confusing. There are some differences... sms> > sms> > The relevant stuff all looked familiar enough. sms> sms> There does seem to be (at least) one significant difference, though, sms> on a 32-bit (VAX) system: sms> [...] sms> This stuff was not in 1.0.0d. Is this the kind of optional-feature sms> module which can be omitted from the build on VAX, or is "long sms> long"-free code available, or are we doomed now (on VAX)? We're not doomed before it's released, and as far as I'm concerned, we haven't rejected support for VAX (I've been sloppy for a time, but that's a different matter entirely). You have to see the development branch (HEAD) as relatively unstable, since that's where new features are added. on the release branches (where 1.0.0d resides, for example), things like this should not happen. Regarding VMS, well, it's not the main development platform (Unix is), so there will sometimes be things suddenly breaking in HEAD. It's up to us who use VMS to test and report problems or contribute changes. Cheers, Richard -- Richard Levitte [email protected] http://richard.levitte.org/ "Life is a tremendous celebration - and I'm invited!" -- from a friend's blog, translated from Swedish ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [email protected]
