[asterisk-dev] SHA1 and MD5 code?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Terry Wilson <twilson at digium.com> wrote:
>> I hate to have to break it to you, but if you're talking about
>> optional dependencies you've utterly failed. The Fedora Asterisk
>> package pulls in around ~50 packages explicitly, and who knows how
>> many other packages implicitly. There's a lot of other functionality
>> in Asterisk that isn't built for the Fedora package yet because it
>> requires a library that isn't available in Fedora.
>
> Most of those would not be required for a very basic install of Asterisk.
> Sure, if you want to install every optional module that was ever added,
> then there would be lots of dependencies. Asterisk wasn't really
> designed to be used that way, though. It is modular for a reason.
>
> With that said, I wouldn't worry too much about an OpenSSL
> dependency. Well, I wouldn't other than for the fact that I've used
> OpenSSL before and it makes me want to claw my eyes out with
> a jalepeno-covered fork. Every time I dig through OpenSSL code
> trying to figure out how something work so I can use it, I think that
> things should certainly be much easier. Since we already use it,
> I suppose my OpenSSL-rage shouldn't really affect the decision
> that much.

Interestingly, OpenSSL is now deprecated on Mac OS X.  Attempt to
use it, and you will get deprecation warnings all over your compile.