20.03.2019, 21:17, "René J. V. Bertin" <rjvber...@gmail.com>: >> Which distribution already stopped shipping OpenSSL 1.0? > > See my other email: for now this is for MacPorts, but I'm guessing Qt may not > want to depend only on an OpenSSL variant that's EOL. > > Moving to 5.10 may be relatively trivial on Linux but not on Mac, if you want > to > keep supporting OS versions that don't run 5.10 . > > Judging from the commit, OSSL 1.1 support was added to the dev branch almost > exactly TWO years ago. I can't remember when 5.9 came out but it must not have > been older than the "current" version back then. Why on earth was this change > never cherry-picked to the 5.9 branch?!
Because it is a major rewrite of QtNetwork code interfacing with OpenSSL. Such change cannot go to LTS branch [1] [1] http://quips-qt-io.herokuapp.com/quip-0005.html > It's not like it introduces all kinds of > hot new features, and if I understand correctly this kind of change to the > OSSL > backend should be completely transparent for dependent software? > > R. > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
