[Python-Dev] RFC: Backport ssl.MemoryBIO and ssl.SSLObject to Python 2.7 (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Thu Jun 1 13:22:06 EDT 2017

2017-06-01 19:09 GMT+02:00 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>:

By 2020, only Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 will still be maintained, so while 18.04 will likely contain whatever the latest 2.7 is available at that time, 16.04 won't track upstream point releases, but instead will get select cherry picks. For good reason, there's a lot of overhead to backporting fixes into stable releases, and something as big as being suggested here would, in my best guess, have a very low chance of showing up in stable releases.

I can help Canonical to backport MemoryBIO if they want to cherry-pick this feature ;-)

Victor

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