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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 02:40:47 EDT 2016

On 31 August 2016 at 00:55, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

I find that users of such systems either use only what their distro itself supplies (ie: ancient versions at that point) or are fully comfortable building any dependencies their own software needs. If they are comfortable building a CPython runtime in the first place, they should be comfortable building required libraries. Nothing new there

In our environment (corporate systems locked to older OS releases, with Python not a strategic solution but used for ad-hoc automation) it's quite common to find only an ancient version of Python available, but want to build a new version without any ability to influence corporate IT to allow new versions of the necessary libraries.

But I strongly agree, this is my problem, and Python policy should not be based on the idea that what I want to do "should" be supported.

So +1 on the proposed change here.

Paul

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