[Python-Dev] Python 3.7: Require OpenSSL >=1.0.2 (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Tue Jan 16 05:39:41 EST 2018


On 2018-01-16 08:08, Steve Dower wrote:

From my perspective, we can’t keep an OpenSSL-like API and use Windows platform libraries (we could do a requests-like API easily enough, but even urllib3 is painfully low-level).

We have to continue shipping our own copy of OpenSSL on Windows. Nothing to negotiate here except whether OpenSSL releases should trigger a Python release, and I think that decision can stay with the RM.

3.7 will no longer use static linking. We can offer out-of-bounds updates of the OpenSSL DLLs. And by "we", I'm talking about you. :)

Christian



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