OpenSSL in Python (move to variant?)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 24, 2011, at 23:46, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> Well, the fact that it's deprecated in Lion doesn't mean that MacPorts can't keep using it as a purely non-system dependency, but actually converting ports to CommonCrypto (or the SecTransform APIs where appropriate) will definitely make them a lot more future-proof and also take advantage of some fairly substantial performance work that's gone into CC (or, in the case of SecTransforms, is also multicore aware and capable of parallelizing certain operations).

And would avoid the openssl licensing issue this thread is about.