[Python-Dev] PEP 476: Enabling certificate validation by default!

[Nick Coghlan]

On 3 Sep 2014 09:08, "David Reid" <dreid at dreid.org> wrote:
>
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Creating *new* incompatibilities between Python 2 & Python 3 is a major
point
> > of concern.
>
> Clearly this change should be backported to Python2.

Proposing to break backwards compatibility in a maintenance release would
require an *even better* migration story for handling legacy
infrastructure. There's a reason the Py3 compatibility break was
accompanied by a long term support commitment for Python 2 (and why that
commitment was extended another 5 years when it became clear the
implications of the binary and text handling were more significant than we
originally realised).

It's important to remember that the tech industry in general, and open
source focused companies in particular, tend to be amongst the best of the
best when it comes to infrastructure management (and we're still pretty
terrible at it).

The vast majority of infrastructure in the world *isn't* in the hands of
those companies though - it's in the hands of companies where having any
kind of computing infrastructure at all is merely a cost of doing business.

Alex's "ridiculous" scenario doesn't sound ridiculous to me - it sounds
like a typical corporate computing environment.

Regards,
Nick.

>
> -David
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