[macports-ports] branch master updated: mosh: 1.3.0, switch to CommonCrypto

[Ken Cunningham]

so this sorta gets back to your question about support for older systems, and is a pretty typical example of same.

sounds like you could write up an openssl variant for it, default to that variant on suitable systems, and nobody would likely complain about that. But you might have to do it and submit the PR.

K


On 2017-04-03, at 8:05 AM, db wrote:

> On 2 Apr 2017, at 20:42, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 12:48:08PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> The previous version of the port was still building successfully on
>>> Leopard and later. We may not care about systems so old anymore, but I
>>> wanted to make sure we were making this decision deliberately.
>> I made the decision deliberately. I do not actively support these old
>> platforms. I removed the OpenSSL dependency to avoid the dependency and
>> use a more modern crypto lib.
>>> The port could use openssl on Lion and earlier and CommonCrypto on
>>> Mountain Lion and later, if CommonCrypto is really better than
>>> openssl.
> 
> I just gave it a spin: mosh 1.3.0 with openssl builds on 10.8.5 (in the 1.2.6 portfile change version, delete revision, change the checksums). I don't know of ≤10.7 though.
>