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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Aug 31 12:58:17 EDT 2016

I think it's time for this thread to stop as everyone seems to be talking in circles. Christian said he's going to write a PEP so let's wait for that before discussing this any further so we have a concrete proposal to focus around.

On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 at 05:04 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On 31 August 2016 at 20:20, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote: > ... 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.

It won't dictate general support for those platforms, it will dictate support for the ssl module on those platforms. If someone isn't making secure network connections from Python, things will work fine. If a redistributor is stepping in to provide the assertion that the network connection is secure despite our upstream misgivings, things will work fine. Connections will only fail in cases where neither we nor a redistributor are prepared to make the assertion that a requested secure network connection will actually be secure. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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