commit: 5ba63f014480e58bb7d368bf8031a91ef54c83d0
parent 23ae6131beed7a230516ef84cc3a8f36987c8ac5
Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 04:33:11 +0200
RATIONALES: add notes around bearssl & al.
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/RATIONALES.md b/RATIONALES.md
@@ -110,13 +110,21 @@ Meanwhile:
- genext2fs: uses autotools but only for generating a config.h which can be vendored
- lwext4: a lot more code than you'd need on systems like Linux which have builtin support for ext2
+## extra: bearssl
+- bearssl: codegen from C# for some files (see ./T0/ and *.t0 files).
+ Maybe generator can be rewritten in a simpler language, or *.t0 files in lex/yacc
+- wolfssl: depends on autotools/cmake, gates `make dist` tarballs behind registration
+- mbedtls: depends on CMake, might require Python
+- openssl: depends on Perl
+- gnutls: depends on autotools (and still has a questionable API security-wise)
+- nss: horrible mess of a buildsystem, depends on Perl
+
## misc extras
- lua: For oasis
- muon: For pkgconf and git without autotools
- pkgconf: For iproute2
- GNU make: Required by the other extras
- iproute2: Basic networking configuration
-- bearssl: small TLS library
- tiny-curl: Still pretty big but hopefully close enough to the usual one
- cacert (from curl.haxx.se): Maybe could be reduced to a handful of CAs (like maybe even just Let's Encrypt)
- git: For oasis
