On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
> On 2012-06-27 19:46, William Stein wrote:
>> We indirectly support an *optional* (and little used) feature for the
>> Sage notebook called "ssl support", and for people to use it, they
>> must either use the system-wide ssl on their computer or install an
>> optional package themselves.
> It's not optional, it's *required*.  The spkg is only optional in the
> sense that you don't need the OpenSSL spkg if your operating system
> already has OpenSSL.  But to build and to run Sage requires OpenSSL in
> one way or another.

I'm sorry -- I was only addressing the situation with respect to the
*notebook*.

Why is OpenSSL required to build and run Sage without the notebook?????

 -- William

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