I'm going to reïterate my question from earlier as I don't see anyone having tackled it: > I feel surely this isn't a problem that Perl uniquely is trying to > solve. It feels like this should be easily solved by "doing what the > other languages do" - i.e. could someone more familiar with some of > the others report back on how e.g. Python or Ruby handle this kind of > thing? If it works for them then surely we can do the same? For example, for Python you can begin here: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/ssl.py which soon leads to: https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/main/Modules/_ssl.c and suggests they're just using openssl: /* Include OpenSSL header files */ #include "openssl/rsa.h" ... There's also the "installation instructions" which point out that libssl-dev is an (optional) build-time dependency: https://devguide.python.org/setup/#install-dependencies I suspect if that works for them, we can probably do similar. Ruby, on the other hand, appears after a 30second search not to come with SSL baked into the core, but can be added with an add-on module ("gem") in similar style to our current Perl attempt; https://github.com/ruby/openssl But theabove is all based on a mere 5 minutes of research from me - I'm sure there'll be folks around who know more about the situation so can chime in with extra detail. ;) -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/Thread Previous | Thread Next