<div dir="ltr">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.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 at 05:04 Nick Coghlan <<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 31 August 2016 at 20:20, M.-A. Lemburg <<a href="mailto:mal@egenix.com" target="_blank">mal@egenix.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ... which would then mean: Python's compatibility roadmap will<br>
> be dictated by OpenSSL.<br>
><br>
> I won't buy into that, sorry. Crypto is a helper in certain<br>
> situations, it's not what Python is all about. We should not<br>
> let OpenSSL dictate how and when we deprecate platforms or<br>
> OS versions.<br>
<br>
It won't dictate general support for those platforms, it will dictate<br>
support for the *ssl module* on those platforms. If someone isn't<br>
making secure network connections from Python, things will work fine.<br>
If a redistributor is stepping in to provide the assertion that the<br>
network connection is secure despite our upstream misgivings, things<br>
will work fine.<br>
<br>
Connections will only fail in cases where neither we nor a<br>
redistributor are prepared to make the assertion that a requested<br>
secure network connection will actually be secure.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Nick.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Nick Coghlan | <a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com" target="_blank">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a> | Brisbane, Australia<br>
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