[Python-Dev] PEP 476: Enabling certificate validation by default! (original) (raw)
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Sep 3 02:19:46 CEST 2014
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 16:47:35 -0700 Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
On Sep 2, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 Sep 2014 09:08, "David Reid" <dreid at dreid.org> wrote: > > > > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Creating new incompatibilities between Python 2 & Python 3 is a major point > > > of concern. > > > > Clearly this change should be backported to Python2. > > Proposing to break backwards compatibility in a maintenance release (...) > As we keep saying, this is not a break in backwards compatibility, it's a bug fix.
Keeping saying it doesn't make it magically true. Besides, it can perfectly well be a bug fix as well as a break in backwards compatibility. Which is why we sometimes choose to fix bugs only in the feature development branch.
Regards
Antoine.
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