[Pkg-julia-devel] Linking libgit2 to OpenSSL

[Peter Colberg]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:21:59PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 07:49:07PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote:
> > The julia maintainers have proposed to libgit2 upstream to support
> > mbedTLS [1] as an alternative. That is a long-term solution however
> > that will take another year to ship in the form of julia 0.6.0.
> 
> I don't think it'd take a year to do this.  If libgit2 upstream added
> support for a new TLS transport, I'd be happy to help get the new
> upstream version of libgit2 packaged for Debian right away.  I already
> need the latest upstream version for another project.

My estimate was based on this comment [1], which refers to a solution
using MbedTLS as a custom TLS stream with libgit2 [2, 3]. This was(?)
planned for julia 0.6.0, which could indeed take a year until release.

Transparently supporting MbedTLS in upstream libgit2 [4] seems a much
better solution and will work with julia 0.5.0 out of the box. Thanks
for advocating this proposal to the upstream maintainer.

Peter

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17661#issuecomment-235963167
[2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17471
[3] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/3850
[4] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/3462