[Cryptography-dev] Building cryptography on Windows for Python 3.3

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

On Feb 20, 2014, at 7:30 AM, Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Everyone, time to express some opinions!

Getting OpenSSL installed on Windows is (A) a pain, and (B) highly unlikely even for expert users to manage to set up for automatic updates.  (The fellow who kindly provides the binaries doesn't have auto-updates because OpenSSL's API, to say nothing of its ABI, is basically unstable, so they can't issue arbitrary updates.)

I understand not wanting to rev builds for every new release of OpenSSL, but the solution to that should be eventually obviating the OpenSSL dependency entirely by building a backend that uses a platform-specific Windows backend, one that will get updated through normal platform updates.

In the meanwhile, doing build revs occasionally is probably preferable, and even if the PyCA is not super diligent about doing this, it'll still, practically speaking, get updated more often than hand-installed OpenSSL on an end user's system.

Users savvy enough to do their own updates can always still build from source themselves.

-g
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