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

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Wed Aug 31 06:20:28 EDT 2016

On 31.08.2016 12:05, Christian Heimes wrote:

This was my last reply to your mails on this topic. It's clear to me that you are not open to Cory's, Nick's or my arguments and that you won't change your position. More replies are just a waste of my limited time.

I am open to arguments, but so far I have not seen a compelling one which strikes the right balance.

And if you have read my replies, I'm only suggesting to postpone the switch to 1.0.2 by one release and even there I said that it's not all that dramatic if this doesn't happen due to the way the timelines for 3.6 and 3.7 work.

What I am seriously worried about, is the next step ...

Instead I'm going to focus on a PEP to define OpenSSL support and to auto-deprecate unsupported OpenSSL versions. The PEP is a very high chance to get accepted. Everybody except you support the plan.

... which would then mean: Python's compatibility roadmap will be dictated by OpenSSL.

I won't buy into that, sorry. Crypto is a helper in certain situations, it's not what Python is all about. We should not let OpenSSL dictate how and when we deprecate platforms or OS versions.

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