[fpc-pascal] OpenSSL

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> Op 18-11-15 om 13:52 schreef Torsten Bonde Christiansen:
>> On 2015-11-18 13:32, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
>>>
>>> But where did you install lnet from in the first place? Just update 
>>> to the latest version isn't that hard? I do not know which version 
>>> you are using, but if it is a recent one, the rename of the openssl 
>>> unit is the only change. ;)
>> I've been using the one from here:
>> http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcprojects/lnet/tags/release_0_6_5
> 
> That version is a few years old, use trunk instead.
> 
> The problem is that the original maintainer is not active anymore, so 
> there are no new releases.

There've been a few changes to e.g. admit the possibility of using IP6, 
and I've added a bit of stuff related to Telnet (not very good, I'd 
hasten to say, but enough to do a specific job).

My understanding is that lnet is not formally part of FPC, but is 
included as a convenience. It is outside the usual package scheme, and 
is part of neither the RTL nor FCL.

So irrespective of lnet's merits, if there's a conflict with any part of 
the RTL or FCL, it loses.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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