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Re: MAINTAINERS: New OpenSSL 0.9.8 release
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre at phumblet dot no-ip dot org>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:30:17 -0400
- Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS: New OpenSSL 0.9.8 release
At 09:45 AM 7/6/2005 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Maintainers of
>
> neon
> curl
> exim
> fetchmail
> links
> lynx
> mutt
> openssh
> pine
> postgresql
> python
> stunnel
> uw-imap
> wget
> lftp
> xemacs
> openldap
> lighttpd
> clamav
> GNOME
> cyrus-sasl
> w3m
>
>I've just uploaded the brand new OpenSSL release 0.9.8. This release
>is ABI incompatible to the former 0.9.7 release, so the new DLLs are
>named cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll and cygssl-0.9.8.dll.
>
>The old cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll and cygssl-0.9.7.dll are now packed in a
>new package called openssl097.
>
>The change should not be noticable for now, since the openssl package
>requires the openssl097 package. It would be nice if we could change
>the dependency in the setup.hint files to use openssl097 instead of
>openssl throughout, if you don't plan to release a new package soon.
>
>However, since the old 0.9.7 development package just disappeared in
>favor of the new 0.9.8 development package, the next release of your
>software should be 0.9.8 based.
>
>Therefore, it would be preferable, if you could upgrade your packages
>to use OpenSSL 0.9.8 so that we can get rid of the 0.9.7 compatibility
>package at one point.
Coincidentally I just built the new exim release today.
Cygcheck shows that it uses both 0.9.8 directly as well as 0.9.7 through
cygldap-2-2-7.dll
Can I assume this should be OK (but not efficient)?
Pierre.