On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are various https-only software repos, not only Python or R-relayed. > IIRC kernel.org is one of them. Without SSL headers one cannot build tools to > access such repos; e.g. there are no such headers in Xcode. > One may keep repeating "optional" etc mantras, but it does not make > non-functioning tools functioning, SSL is one of feature creeping and > becoming de facto standard, just as one cannot really build a functioning > single-thread CPython, even though it is officially not acknowledged...
Heh, actually it has been. In CPython 3.7dev the ability to even build CPython without threads was quietly dropped a few weeks ago. There was little objection. It used to be there were very good reasons to keep that ability, particularly for smaller devices; microcontrollers, etc. But now MicroPython exists as the officially-blessed CPython fork aimed at such platforms. Anyways, as insistent as I am on this it's still a minor point. I'm completely in favor of making SSL a required feature for any binary distribution of Sage. I just think it should not fail completely to build without it. I changed my vote to "No" only because after discussion in the thread I was convinced that the proposed options were not complete. -- 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.
