OpenSSH and OpenSSL snapshots

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 20:16, Markus Friedl wrote:

> But why break binary compatibility for 99% of the
> users if 1% have problems with linking?
> 
> Why not provide an 'option' for for these 1%,
> that allows then to use the new API, e.g
> 	#define OPENSSL_NEW_DES_API
> 	#include <openssl/des.h>

Or at least a way to enable the old API:

	#define OPENSSL_OLD_DES_API
	#include <openssl/des.h>

We don't have the luxury of only supporting the most recent OpenSSL
release and we don't want to pollute our code with #ifdef's everywhere.

-d

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