[yt-dev] OS X 10.11 and OpenSSL

[Nathan Goldbaum]

Hi all,

So the issue with the install script on 10.11 is that Apple no longer
includes OpenSSL in the 10.11 SDK.

The way package managers like macports and homebrew deal with this is by
installing their own version of OpenSSL.  The binary Python.org installers
bundle OpenSSL as well. It may be possible to link against a version of
OpenSSL included in the SDK for 10.10 (which can be obtained on 10.11), but
I suspect that's not a very forward-looking idea and I have no idea under
what circumstances the 10.10 SDKs are installed.

One way to fix this would be to ship and build our own versions of OpenSSL
along with the install script. I'm very wary about doing this, since I'd
prefer not to even think about managing crypto libraries, but it's looking
increasingly like we might need to do this here. One way to minimize risk
would be to only install OpenSSL on OSX 10.11 and newer.

Anyone have any thoughts here? Going to try to work on this tomorrow as
well and it would be great to hear any ideas from the peanut gallery on
this one.

-Nathan
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