lsb package for wine thoughts

[Henri Verbeet]

2008/8/28 Juan Lang <juan.lang at gmail.com>:
> Hi Dan,
>
>> One of my wild dreams is to create an LSB
>> package for Wine.  One of the many roadblocks
>> is OpenSSL.
>
> The only part of Wine that currently depends on OpenSSL is wininet.
> That could change if someone decides to copy that part of wininet to
> winhttp, but it shouldn't spread beyond that.  We need to implement
> schannel at some point, as several apps depend on it, and I doubt
> Alexandre will accept an implementation that depends on OpenSSL.  As
> long as we're talking about wild dreams, assuming someone ever
> implements schannel, wininet should be written on top of that, and the
> problem goes away.
> --Juan
>
For what it's worth, I've actually got part of a schannel
implementation on top of gnutls. (Most of gnutls is LGPL, but eg. the
OpenSSL compatibility is GPL)