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 -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org