Why are so many crates using OpenSSL 0.7?

[fweimer]

@Ixrec

The comments on that Hyper issue make it sound like Hyper and all of its dependencies have to choose between OpenSSL 0.7, 0.8 and now 0.9. Is there no way for these libraries to simply support multiple OpenSSL versions?

See my other reply in the related thread. It's a something that not all system dynamic linkers supported (assuming that these versions of the OpenSSL crate bundle different OpenSSL libraries).