[Python-Dev] Status of XML fixes

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 17, 2013, at 05:37 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:

>Any attempt to fix the XML issues *will* change the behavior of the
>library and result into an incompatibility with older releases. Benjamin
>doesn't want to change the behavior of our XML libraries. IIRC Georg and
>Barry are +0. I think that we should keep the current and unsafe
>settings as default and add a simmple API to enable limitations and
>protections.

I strongly believe that the decision must be the same for all stable versions.
We can't impose the madness of version checks on people for them to know what
to do.

-Barry