OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 1998/12/31 12:52:23 $
+ ______________ $Date: 1999/01/01 15:58:14 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
OPEN ISSUES
+ o The apps/ dir should be cleaned up.
+ Ralf proposes the following cleanup:
+ 1. We rename the ssleay program to openssl.
+ => This way it's consistent with out project and
+ with the already started openssl(1) manpage, etc.
+ 2. We no longer create such a lot of <command> links for
+ "openssl <command>". Instead we follow the "cvs" interface idea
+ where all <command>s are called as "cvs <command>".
+ => This no longer messes up the install dir with
+ symlinks and provides a single-one and consistent command line
+ interface. Additionally we can document it nicely with the single
+ already started openssl(1) manual page.
+ Status: Ralf +1
+
o The installation under "make install" produces a very
installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's
not nice. Ralf suggests to move the two certs and private dirs either
Status: Ralf +1 for both not installing the certs at all and
moving it to $prefix/etc/. +0 for $prefix/lib/
and $prefix/share.
+ Paul: why is it not nice?
+ Ralf: because it messes up the install dir when
+ $prefix is not a dedicated area like /usr/local/ssl.
+ When we move them to a standard subdir like
+ etc/ lib/ or share/ we don't mess up things
+ when $prefix is /usr or /usr/local, etc.
+ Additionally it makes package vendors life
+ easier....
o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
to date.
+ Paul +1
o Ralf has ported Stephen's pkcs12 program to OpenSSL (the
ASN.1 stuff Eric recently changed :-( ), but needs some help from
change it for us when we want to incorporate the code.
Status: Ralf +1, Stephen -0
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