[Python-Dev] windows 2.5 build: use OpenSSL for hashlib [bug 1535502] (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Aug 8 02:23:02 CEST 2006

Gregory P. Smith schrieb:

Sigh. Half the reason I did the hashlib work was to get much faster optimized versions of the hash algorithms into python. I'll be disappointed if that doesn't happen.

Sad as it sounds, it appears you just did half of the work, then (omitting the Windows build process).

hashlib passes its test suite with our without openssl. If I make the windows project file updates to simply build and include hashlib.pyd in the windows installer what harm is that going to cause?

None, if you do it correctly (where correctly includes AMD64 and IA64 builds), add text to PCbuild/readme.txt, and edit msi.py properly.

That is, assuming hashlib then still works correctly on Windows (which is hard to tell).

IMHO the windows python 2.5 build as it is is missing a feature by not including this.

Wrong incantation :-) We are in feature freeze now, so adding a feature is a big no-no. You should have argued this is a bug <0.5 wink>.

Regards, Martin

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