Re: [Chicken-users] OpenSSL egg option defaults poll

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 07:35:00AM +0100, Florian Zumbiehl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Therefore I took another route: The existing procedures keep their
> > current defaults, but there is a new set of object constructors that
> > uses only keyword arguments and configures things in a more secure
> > way by default.
> 
> That seems sensible to me, in particular as making existing APIs behave in
> backward incompatible ways tends to be ugly.

I agree.  It's a bit hairy, but maybe we can get rid of that by changing
it for CHICKEN 5 so that "ssl-make-client-context" is the new one.
We're breaking backwards compatibility in core as well, so it makes sense
to do the same for mistakes in egg APIs too.

Cheers,
Peter
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