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[Rescert] Old OpenSSL code cleaned out of my repository



Those of you who track my subversion repository may have noticed that
I recently cleaned out all the old OpenSSL code.  Reasons:

1) My patches are in the shipping OpenSSL release (0.9.8e);

2) I don't want the version used by my tools to lag behind the
   release code;

3) There's nothing to be gained (at the moment, anyway) by maintaining
   my own fork of the released code; and

4) Four copies of the OpenSSL tree in the repository equals nearly
   9,000 extra files, and some subversion operations have per-file
   overhead, so cleaning up old stuff seemed worthwhile.

The openssl directory within the repository still exists, but it
contains just a handful of files, one of which is a copy of the
openssl-0.9.8e release tarball and another of which is a Makefile to
generate the libraries that my other tools need, so the repository
code is still fairly self-contained and running "make" at the top
level should just work.

If you've compiled this code in the past you might want to run "make
clean" in the top level directory before running "svn update".

All the old stuff is still available in the repository if one uses the
--revision flag to the svn command line tool or browses far enough
back in the history with ViewVC.  If at some point in the future I
need to fork from the distribution, I'll start over with whatever is
the current release at that time (I'd do that anyway, see (2)).

Let me know if you run into problems that appear to have been
triggered by this change.