[Python-Dev] PEP 466 (round 2): Network security enhancements for Python 2.7

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 24.03.2014 18:23, Ned Deily wrote:
> In article 
> <CADiSq7f0CnzrfM4i8xJ13J+sLq63UYNQkDo12CZM5yeQ3BfRdA at mail.gmail.com>,
>  Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You also reminded me that I need to dig around for and reference Ned's
>> email about the status of OS X and reference that (OpenSSL upgrades
>> were a casualty of Apple's anti-GPL crusade, so the OS X installers
>> were switched to static linking somewhere along the line).
> 
> AFAIK, Apple's decision to deprecate OpenSSL has nothing to do with the 
> GPL, since OpenSSL isn't GPL-licensed, but rather with OpenSSL API 
> compatibility issues:
> 
> http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/33696323211/wherein-i-write-apples-techno
> te-about-openssl-on-os-x

What a strange reasoning. Do they really believe that ABIs don't
change when bumping the library version from 0.9.8 to 1.0.0 ?

OpenSSL's history w/r to backwards compatibility up until 0.9.7 wasn't
the greatest, but since 0.9.8 it has gotten to a level that's very
reliable.

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