[Python-Dev] PEP 466 (round 5): selected network security enhancements for Python 2.7

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Wed Mar 26 16:20:21 CET 2014


On 03/26/2014 05:00 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> The Mac OS X binary installers historically followed the same policy as
> other POSIX installations and dynamically linked to the Apple provided
> OpenSSL libraries. However, Apple has now ceased updating these
> cross-platform libraries, instead requiring that even cross-platform
> developers adopt Mac OS X specific interfaces to access up to date security
> infrastructure on their platform. Accordingly, and independently of this
> PEP, the Mac OS X binary installers were already going to be switched to
> statically linker newer versions of OpenSSL [4]_

Should be 'link', not 'linker'.

Looks good.

+1

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~Ethan~


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