[Python-Dev] Python 3.7: Require OpenSSL >=1.0.2 / LibreSSL >= 2.5.3

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:49:21 +0100
Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:
> On 2018-01-13 14:23, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:54:33 +0100
> > Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:  
> >>
> >> If we agree to drop support for OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 1.0.1, then I can land
> >> bunch of useful goodies like proper hostname verification [2], proper
> >> fix for IP address in SNI TLS header [3], PEP 543 compatible Certificate
> >> and PrivateKey types (support loading certs and keys from file and
> >> memory) [4], and simplified cipher suite configuration [5]. I can
> >> finally clean up _ssl.c during the beta phase, too.  
> > 
> > Given the annoyance of supporting old OpenSSL versions, I'd say +1 to
> > this.
> > 
> > We'll have to deal with the complaints of users of Debian oldstable,
> > CentOS 6 and RHEL 6, though.  
> 
> It's more of an issue for Travis CI. The Python 3.7-dev target won't
> have a functional ssl module. Travis either has to update their build
> base to 16.04, provide a custom build of OpenSSL, or all packages have
> to use a container. [1]

That's Travis-CI's problem.  And hopefully they'll migrate to Ubuntu
16.04 soon (it's almost 2 years old...).

Regards

Antoine.