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Tom Molesworth via perl5-porters
Date:
December 10, 2021 11:02
Subject:
Re: OpenSSL alternative support WAS Re: Pre-RFC: support httpsout-of-the-box
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On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 at 18:37, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:

> both that list and the other mentions of "but use curl or wget" seem to
> forget Windows. Which I admit that I don't know that much about, but my
> list of "known unknowns" is already:
>

Given the existence of Strawberry Perl and the Linux subsystem, building
Perl from scratch on Windows seems more like an advanced-user, "you know
what you're doing already" situation?

Also, if CPAN.pm already use wget/curl if available, and the target
objective is more-secure-by-default CPAN installation, seems the only
necessary step for core is perhaps to add some CPAN.pm tweaks: refuse
HTTP-only downloads by default (needs an override otherwise we make life
harder for situations where caching is desirable).

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