2014-09-08 3:52 GMT+02:00 Jakob Bohm <[email protected]>:
> And how would you do that without breaking compatibility with every
> program (in C, C++ or any other language) that already uses openssl and
> depends on the current API names?

That's the show-stopper rationale. I expect that old projects relying
on OpenSSL should be adapted at some time, otherwise OpenSSL may
provide backward compatibility updates (as it does now). But at some
point bugs must be fixed and, IMHO, the namespace/prefix pollution of
OpenSSL is a bug.


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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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