[darcs-users] SSL on windows

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:00:29PM -0800, Dave Roberts wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 07:47 -0500, David Roundy wrote:
> > Indeed this is the issue--a license one.  You can legally compile and use
> > openssl with a program licensed under the GPL, but you can't legally
> > distribute openssl as part of a GPLed program.  So the static windows
> > executable that is distributed can't include ssl support via openssl.
> > 
> > But as you say, if we dynamically linked with libcurl, then users could
> > download a libcurl which is linked with openssl (which would be legal).
> 
> Can't you get this support today by setting the DARCS_GET_HTTPS variable
> to call-out to a curl binary that is compiled for SSL support? I haven't
> done this with SSL, but I have gotten darcs to call out to a curl
> executable on Windows, and you can get curl compiled with SSL support, I
> believe.

Yeah, that should work.  You'd also definitely want to set the
DARCS_MGET_HTTPS, since running curl on multiple files simultaneously makes
a big difference in speed.
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David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net