[Interest] Qt 5.9 and OpenSSL 1.1?

[René J. V. Bertin]

I finally got around to upgrading OpenSSL and getting to work Qt 5.9 with it. It 
required an additional change that I hadn't found in the 5.10 branch: accepting 
the newer version during the configure phase :)

https://github.com/RJVB/macstrop/blob/master/aqua/qt5-kde-devel/files/qt597/patch-openssl11-support-qt597.diff

Test-driving it I did notice that the securesocketclient example would crash on 
me, due to which seems to be an oversight (still present in newer code):

https://github.com/RJVB/macstrop/blob/master/aqua/qt5-kde-devel/files/qt598/patch-httpsockeng-fix.diff

Thiago Macieira wrote:

> On Friday, 22 March 2019 13:02:57 PDT maitai wrote:

>> Ideally qt should be compatible for both. I understand this is not
>> doable ?
> 
> It's not doable.

Technically it seems that it should be possible when loading the SSL libraries 
at runtime, no?

>> At least deliver binaries for both, please.
> 
> That's one option we're studying, but that means you'll have to ask your user
> when they download.

What about LibreSSL, do they have the same inter-version compatibility issues as 
OpenSSL has, and could you distribute a binary version in your binary packages?
If so, it could be worth the initial investment to start supporting it?

R.