Remove OpenSSL as a requirement for building Pony #3225
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The net/ssl and crypto packages are being removed from the standard library
and moved to a new home at https://github.com/ponylang/net-ssl/ and
https://github.com/ponylang/crypto respectively. Each will live on as an
independent library.
They are being removed because they have a transitive dependency on an
external library openssl and that dependency makes creating release
artifacts more difficult.
At the moment we have to deal with packaging up openssl for each Linux
distro etc and they all have their own methods to do so. This
lead us to do a lot of work on supporting distro specific packaging.
That has turned out to be too much work. We are moving to having
a single glibc Linux friendly .tar.gz that can be done to install
Pony.
To faciliate this move, we decided that we want to remove items from
the standard library that depend on external libraries like openssl.
Full conversation about the decision is available in the audio of
the Pony development sync July 9, 2019 audio that you can download
from: https://sync-recordings.ponylang.io/r/2019_07_09.m4a