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   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
-  ______________                           $Date: 1998/12/31 12:52:23 $
+  ______________                           $Date: 1999/01/02 16:28:51 $
 
   DEVELOPMENT STATE
 
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   OPEN ISSUES
 
+    o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
+
+       1. The config vs. Configure scripts
+          It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
+          src/Configure. It confuses.
+          Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
+                      script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
+                      Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
+                      itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
+                      which are currently in Configure.
+
+       2. The massive symlinking of Makefile.ssl -> Makefile:
+          First the `make -f Makefile.ssl links' command is nasty, second the
+          whole process is slow and third it seems to be done without real
+          need. And forth, the dependecies are currently missing.  And fifth,
+          it's complicated to always go to the top-level in order to get the
+          local variables overriden.
+          Suggestion: Rename Makefile.ssl to Makefile.in, add
+                      dependencies to Makefile.in and change the build process
+                      to _generate_ Makefile out of Makefile.in by
+                      substituting variables like CC, etc. This solves the
+                      above problems.
+
+       3. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
+          It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.
+          Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way
+                      one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h
+
     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
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        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
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        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
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        change it for us when we want to incorporate the code.
 
        Status: Ralf +1, Stephen -0
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