On Wed, 26 Apr 2023, 20:03 Matthias Koeppe, <matthiaskoe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 10:25:37 AM UTC-7 David Roe wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 6:41 AM Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > PS. I think openssl spkg should just be removed from Sage, it serves > no purpose as far as I can tell. > > > For a long time it was very important for getting a functional Sage on > MacOS; is that no longer the case? > > > Yes, it is still very important for exactly this reason. > We solved the longstanding severe SSL problems of the project by making > openssl 3.x a standard package. > > Meta-ticket https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/30556 was dedicated > to this. > > Best practices dictate to not create real problems by addressing imaginary > problems. > Best practices dictate to get rid of legacy technical baggage. There are no SSL problems if one uses an external Python with SSL. There is no reason not to use such an external Python, none. It might have been important 5 or 10 years ago, now it is just waste of resources to support. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/b915819b-28cf-4bc4-8b8c-3313c6ced38an%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/b915819b-28cf-4bc4-8b8c-3313c6ced38an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq1ZwQAopUtQ3BTeBkiKjGZF%3DAHkrATU5Q_bWAyT%2BCQLHw%40mail.gmail.com.
