SSL Server Sockets?

[Thomas Weholt]

I got the same problem. Wish there were more precompiled binary packages of
M2Crypto. Why can't Python be shipped with SSL-support compiled into it?
Could M2Crypto be included in the distro? If it's dependant on OpenSSL
that's open source too, so why not join forces and create a real
security-focused programming-package?

The ability to compile from source is great, but when it has a lot of
dependencies it would be easier to include the package in the standard
distro so people don't have to hassle with it.

To make life alot easier for many of us, either :
a) get more packages into the standard distro
or
b) offer some precompiled and/or easy to install add-on package containing
the most widely used modules ( PIL, M2Crypto, BSDDB 3.x-wrappers,
StandaloneZODB, PyXML ).

Just my two cents.

Thomas Weholt

"Jim Dennis" <jimd at vega.starshine.org> wrote in message
news:a5ijos$1565$1 at news.idiom.com...
> Is the native Python2.2 socket.ssl support still client only,
>  or is it possible to use it for simple ssl servers, yet?
>
>  I know everyone recommends m2crypto --- but m2crypto-0.07-snap2
>  doesn't build on my Debian box.  I get errors like:
>
> Generating wrappers for Python
> _bio.i : Line 30. Syntax error in input.
> _bio.i : Line 31. Syntax error in input.
> _bio.i : Line 32. Variable %constant multiply defined (2nd definition
> ignored).
> _bio.i : Line 32. Syntax error in input.
> _bio.i : Line 33. Variable %constant multiply defined (2nd definition
> ignored).
> _bio.i : Line 33. Syntax error in input.
>
>  ... meanwhile I can simply apt-get install python2.2-ssl
>
>