[Python-Dev] PEP 466: Proposed policy change for handling network security enhancements (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Tue Mar 25 23:30:22 CET 2014

Am 25.03.2014 23:15, schrieb Nick Coghlan:

On 26 Mar 2014 01:19, "Brett Cannon" <bcannon at gmail.com_ _<mailto:bcannon at gmail.com>> wrote: As long as we make it clear we have chosen to change our backwards-compatibility guarantees in the name of security and have a link to the last backwards-compatible release then I agree as well. I am not sure how this meme got started, but let me be clear: the proposed policy DOES NOT provide blanket permission to break backwards compatibility in the affected modules. It only allows ADDING new features to bring these modules into line with their Python 3 counterparts, making it easier for third party packages like requests to do the right thing in a cross-version compatible way.

We know. That's what we mean by that.

Georg

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