Comment 38 for bug 12605

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:51:18 -0800
From: "Gregory P. Smith" <email address hidden>
To: Donovan Baarda <email address hidden>
Cc: Bob Ippolito <email address hidden>, "Gregory P. Smith" <email address hidden>,
 Python Developers List <email address hidden>,
 Matthias Klose <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] license issues with profiler.py and md5.h/md5c.c

> I think it would be cleaner and simpler to modify the existing
> md5module.c to use the openssl md5 layer API (this is just a
> search/replace to change the function names). The bigger problem is
> deciding what/how/whether to include the openssl md5 implementation
> sources so that win32 can use them.

yes, that is all i was suggesting.

win32 python is already linked against openssl for the socket module
ssl support, having the md5 and sha1 modules depend on openssl should
not cause a problem.

-greg