Le lundi 23 octobre 2017 14:43:18 UTC+2, Erik Bray a écrit : > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Erik Bray <erik....@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > The same should be true for R, > > and if this is not the case (and I'm not convinced it isn't) > > This part I take back. I see now that in R's configure it really does > refuse to proceed if it doesn't find the right libcurl with SSL > support. It's not possible to disable since it's now the default > download method. This is silly though, since other download methods > still work.
Probably not as silly as it seems : it pushes users towards SSL downloading (for good reasons, I think), while leaving the CRAN mirrors managers some time to adapt (i. e. getting an SSL certificate from an acknowledged CA). I think that a second step is the programmed disappearance of the http access to CRAN mirrors. But we're not yet there. > It should be possible to disable the requirement at > configure time and fallback to a different default. It's a shame we > require a patch for this for now but I can help push for an upstream > fix to this if need be, because I think it's fairly silly. > Could you explain why ? I think that the move towards authentication of the download sources is a Good Idea (TM), but I may be wrong. In any case, the "silliness" of this is nor obvious to my dentist's eyes... -- Emmanuel Charpentier -- 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 post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
