Making cabal-install SSL capable

[Michael Snoyman]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:40 PM Gershom B <gershomb at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> In that case, perhaps we really should lean only towards the “shell out”
> solution. Or, I suppose, we could hide the ssl implementation behind a flag
> — but that feels rather awkward in comparison.
>
> So let’s try this: can anybody suggest any _downside_ to the “shell out”
> solution?
>
>
>
Since I wasn't explicit (and my comments could be read to say otherwise): I
am +1 on whatever approach ends up getting SSL support into cabal. If the
least problematic approach ends up being "shell out", I'm OK with it (I
even did that myself[1] in the distant past).

I believe that shelling out would work for uploading as well as
downloading, correct?

Michael

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/http-wget
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