OpenSSL in Python (move to variant?)

[Eric A. Borisch]

A proposal for consideration; this may not be the best idea, but
that's what discussions are for, right?

OpenSSL's license negatively impacts the usefulness of the binary
distribution process within MacPorts. I propose moving openssl support
to a non-default variant within the pythonNN ports. This will permit
more of the packages that depend on python to be distributable through
binary packages.

I believe OpenSSL can be disabled (so it won't even grab system
versions) with one line in setup.py. In python27's version, for
example, by simply adding 'ssl_libs = None' at line 753.

I've already started a ticket ( https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32188
) that can be modified based on the results of any discussion here.

Thanks,
 Eric
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Eric A. Borisch