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- ______________ $Date: 1999/01/01 15:58:14 $
+ ______________ $Date: 1999/01/21 13:01:20 $
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 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
change it for us when we want to incorporate the code.
Status: Ralf +1, Stephen -0
+
+ WISHES
+
+ o Damien Miller:
+ "How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
+ would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
+ data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
+ This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
+ SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
+ I can forward them if you wish."
+
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