> -----Original Message-----
> From: Branko Čibej [mailto:brane_at_apache.org]
> Sent: 21 November 2017 21:01
>
> On 21.11.2017 21:43, Eric Johnson wrote:
> > I don't know if this helps, but I run Subversion on a Gentoo system,
> > which is constantly upgrading to newer versions of software. Gentoo
> > does a really good job of only marking stuff stable when it is
> > actually stable. So if Gentoo doesn't have openssl 1.1 in use, there's
> > a really good reason.
> >
> > This is what is currently "stable" on my Gentoo system running
> > Subversion (which is a few weeks old - minor updates might be available):
>
> Not-so-minor updates are, in fact available. :)
>
> > *Apache httpd 2.4.27
> > *Apache Serf(tm) 1.3.8
>
> Should be 1.3.9.
>
> > *APR 1.5.2
>
> Should be 1.6.3.
>
> > *APR-util 1.5.4
>
> Should be 1.6.1.
>
> > *APR iconv (not installed on my machine)
>
> Not needed in Unix-like environments that have libiconv generally available. Not needed on Windows
> because we use the native character encoding conversion functions (since ... I don't recall when, but
> it's been quite a while).
>
> > *Expat 2.2.1
> > *OpenSSL 1.0.2l
> > *PCRE 8.41
>
> I have _no_ idea how PCRE got on this list. Subversion itself does not use it, nor, as far as I'm
> aware, do Serf, APR or APR-Util.
I imagine that APR-iconv and PCRE are in the MaxSVN list (and mine) due to building apache httpd as well?
> > *SQLite 3.19.3
> > *ZLib 1.2.11
> >
> > Specifically, in the case of openssl, I found this bug tracking all
> > the compatibility problems: https://bugs.gentoo.org/592438 . Seems
> > like you probably want to stay away from it.
>
> Serf trunk can be compiled with 1.1, but I'm not sure how far along the 1.3.x release branch is.
> Whilst OpenSSL 1.1 has made some really unfortunate decisions that break API compatibility with the
> 1.0.x line, there are also a number of serious bugs fixed in it ...
>
> -- Brane
...so is svn still waiting on support in other packages? Bottom line is that I should still use the 1.0.2 line for now?
Thanks to Brane and Eric.
~ Mark C
Received on 2017-11-22 07:28:57 CET