[Python-Dev] PEP 466: Proposed policy change for handling network security enhancements

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Tue Mar 25 23:30:22 CET 2014


Am 25.03.2014 23:15, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
> 
> On 26 Mar 2014 01:19, "Brett Cannon" <bcannon at gmail.com
> <mailto:bcannon at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> As long as we make it clear we have chosen to change our
> backwards-compatibility guarantees in the name of security and have a link to
> the last backwards-compatible release then I agree as well. 
> 
> I am not sure how this meme got started, but let me be clear: the proposed
> policy DOES NOT provide blanket permission to break backwards compatibility in
> the affected modules. It only allows ADDING new features to bring these modules
> into line with their Python 3 counterparts, making it easier for third party
> packages like requests to do the right thing in a cross-version compatible way.

We know. That's what we mean by that.

Georg




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