Break SSL support out of _socket module and place it into a new
helper module _ssl.
The support for the RAND_* APIs in _ssl is now only enabled
for OpenSSL 0.9.5 and up since they were added in that
release.
Note that socketmodule.* should really be renamed to _socket.* --
unfortunately, this seems to lose the CVS history of the file.
Please review and test... I was only able to test the header file
chaos in socketmodule.c/h on Linux. The test run through fine
and compiles don't give errors or warnings.
WARNING: This patch does *not* include changes to the various
non-Unix build process files.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 72dd792..f6e6b77 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
Library
+- socket module: the SSL support was broken out of the main
+ _socket module C helper and placed into a new _ssl helper
+ which now gets imported by socket.py if available and working.
+
- encodings package: added aliases for all supported IANA character
sets