[Development] websockets (was RE: Qt 5.3 Feature freeze is coming quite soon...)

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed Jan 29 19:24:13 CET 2014


On quarta-feira, 29 de janeiro de 2014 18:50:44, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
> > - Use the API described in
> > http://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Random_Numbers to generate the random
> > number.
> >
> > 
> >
> > I also don't think you even need the 'no-openssl available' use case.
> 
> While OpenSSL is commonly available on most systems. It may not be
> available  on all embedded platforms and it may not be the expected
> version. I can see scenarios in which Websockets are needed, but OpenSSL is
> not available or not desired by the user (e.g. embedded industrial apps
> that need to access some networked resource with a very strange
> protocol[tm] while the boss insists that he would run into export
> restrictions if he allowed OpenSSL).

You can require C++11 random number support. It's a new module, so starting 
with a requirement for C++11 is no problem.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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