an additional requirement on kdelibs

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Mon Mar 5 16:51:18 GMT 2007


On 5-Mar-07, at 3:33 AM, Jos van den Oever wrote:

> 2007/3/5, George Staikos <staikos at kde.org>:
>>
>> Why does it use libssl?  In any case we have always avoided a linked-
>> in libssl, as you can see from KSSL.  That dlopens openssl, which is
>> very memory-heavy.
>
> The only reason is the sha1 routine. We could just include it in  
> the code.
> I'm open to suggestions of fast sha1 implementations.

   Then we really need to drop that dependency.  Linking in OpenSSL  
for that is just not reasonable.  As Stephan pointed out, there are  
many copies of sha1 available for you as an alternative to the Qt one  
if you don't want to use that.

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