[Python-Dev] Supported versions of OpenSSL (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Mon Aug 29 16:19:57 EDT 2016

On 2016-08-29 22:10, Random832 wrote:

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, at 04:09, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Hmm, that last part would mean that Python 3.7 will no longer compile on e.g. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS which uses OpenSSL 1.0.1 as default version. Since 14.04 LTS is supported until 2019, I think it would be better to only start requiring 1.0.2 in Python 3.8. If someone's going to compile a new version of Python for Ubuntu LTS, they can compile a new version of OpenSSL. How likely is it that someone will want to use the packaged version of OpenSSL, but not use the packaged version (which is 3.4) of Python?

Please let me rephrase the question. How likely is it that somebody won't use a container to deploy more recent versions? It's 2016.

Christian

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