Re: Squid development

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chemolli Francesco (USI)" <ChemolliF@GruppoCredit.it>
To: "'Henrik Nordstrom'" <hno@hem.passagen.se>; "Joe Cooper"
<joe@swelltech.com>
Cc: <squid-dev@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: Squid development

>
> > > Any reason this MD5 couldn't be brought into Squid?
> > OpenSSL is under an
> > > Apache style license, right? I'm not sure of the legality of
> > > relicensing Apache-Style License to GPL...
> >
> > Why even bother trying when Squid can be made to simply use
> > the OpenSSL
> > library as it is? (already done on --enable-ssl, can easily be
extened
> > to be done automatically if OpenSSL is found)
>
> Even with demand-page loading, I am not entirely comfortable with
linking
> that big an external library for such a smallish routine as MD5 is.
> I'd rather second ripping the OpenSSL md5 routine, or write our own
> in asm (leaving of course a C fallback for different architectures).

I don't see any value in forking off such a small bit of code. By
linking to the library (and we could link it in statically to avoid the
overhead of shared library loading) we gain any incremental changes made
to OpenSSL.

Rob
Received on Wed Jun 13 2001 - 02:02:57 MDT