openssl vs. libressl

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Nov 10, 2015, at 10:44 AM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
> This would basically cause the same problems as with the current path:
> dependency.

you’re right, of course.

> It is still required to rev-upgrade all ports after switching the
> variant. All binary archives built with the default option would not
> work on a system with a different variant choice on mp-ssl-lib.
> 
> Explicit variants in all ports are the only way to prevent that, as the
> port contents will actually be different depending on whether you link
> against openssl or libressl.

Ryan’s previous suggestion is probably best then, we should choose one or the other as our preferred default and recommend a standard variant to use the alternate.

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Daniel J. Luke                                                                   
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