A few quick comments on this thread.
You will notice that the documentation in the doc directory is all about the
'leaf' functions. There are areas that are definitly still being changed by
me :-). I have big plans for the PKCS7 and X509v3 extension stuff.
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Brendon Harris wrote:
> here's my newbie opinion. For what its worth I have struggled to get to
> grips with both SSLeay and Libeay over the last couple of weeks (and I don't
> consider myself a complete moron ;-). It is hard for someone starting off to
> figure out the minimum requirements for getting an SSL session up and
> running. There is no up to date documentation available and its hard to know
> if you are using the outdated or newer library calls - I have been going
> through code examples dating from 1995 to mid 1997 and the ways of doing
> things differ.
Yes, I agree. I need to update the stuff in the apps directory, I just never
seem too....
> Getting to the point, it would seem that having a good introduction to
> getting started and man pages to cover the basic calls necessary for the
> majority of SSLeay based projects would be an excellent (although long
> overdue) start.
This is part of the reason I've been doing perl5 stuff. I am doing only the
calls that are needed. I also have visions of giving the different functions
ratting on how much you should or should not be using them :-).
Oh yes, for full function lists, look at util/libeay.num and util/ssleay.num.
These files are used when generating .def files for Win16/Win32 DLLs.
They are all the exported functions.
> It would also be good to have a SIMPLE (with comments) demo program
> available (I know I'm asking too much). Although s_server and s_client have
> everything (thats their problem) I find them confusing. And finally it would
> be great for someone to put together a Windows example (yes - stop laughing,
> a few people actually use it). This would certainly allow more people to get
> involved in SSLeay.
I agree, the demo area needs to get larger and I need to stop changing things
:-).
I'll have a list of areas that are still going to change a bit in the 0.9.0
release notes.
eric (who never seems to have enough time....)
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