[Distutils] a plea for backward-compatibility / smooth transitions

[Donald Stufft]

On Jul 30, 2013, at 7:49 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> I have zero qualms about releasing a full disclosure along with working exploits
>> into the wild for a security vulnerability that people block me on.
> 
> This is a moot point, as nobody is going to block anyone. The
> discussion is silly.
> 
> //Lennart

*Shrug*

If someone says people who don't care shouldn't have to suffer the consequences i
assume that means they are advocating for no breakages in API (else the hypothetical
person would be suffering). If you can't break fundamentally insecure things then that's
a blockade on fixing the system. If that's not what the comment was proposing then I
have no idea what it means.

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Donald Stufft
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