[wildfly-dev] Refactoring the WildFly OpenSSL project

[Brian Stansberry]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 6:42 PM James Perkins <jperkins at redhat.com> wrote:

> This is great news. Thanks Farah!
>

+1!

>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:32 AM Farah Juma <fjuma at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> As it stands today, the WildFly OpenSSL project contains both Java code
>> and native code. This means that each time we need to do a release, we need
>> to build the natives, regardless of whether or not there have actually been
>> changes made to the native code. The process of building the natives on
>> various platforms takes time and has caused delays in the past that could
>> have been avoided if we were able to handle changes to the Java code only
>> as a separate release. We have actually found that there have been many
>> times where a release has involved changes to only the Java code. To
>> simplify the release process, we're going to be splitting out the native
>> code from the WildFly OpenSSL project into a separate project. That
>> way, changes to the Java code only will be able to be handled as a separate
>> release, without needing to rebuild the natives. The proposed changes can
>> be found in our incubator:
>>
>> https://github.com/wildfly-security-incubator/wildfly-openssl-natives
>> https://github.com/wildfly-security-incubator/wildfly-openssl/tree/2.x
>>
>> The native modules that have been split out are going to retain the same
>> group and artifact ID as they had when contained in the wildfly-openssl
>> project.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Farah
>>
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