[Python-Dev] PEP 466 (round 5): selected network security enhancements for Python 2.7 (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Wed Mar 26 16:20:21 CET 2014


On 03/26/2014 05:00 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

The Mac OS X binary installers historically followed the same policy as other POSIX installations and dynamically linked to the Apple provided OpenSSL libraries. However, Apple has now ceased updating these cross-platform libraries, instead requiring that even cross-platform developers adopt Mac OS X specific interfaces to access up to date security infrastructure on their platform. Accordingly, and independently of this PEP, the Mac OS X binary installers were already going to be switched to statically linker newer versions of OpenSSL [4]

Should be 'link', not 'linker'.

Looks good.

+1

-- Ethan



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