rotor replacement

[Robin Becker]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Reed L. O'Brien" <reed at intersiege.com> writes:
> 
>>I see rotor was removed for 2.4 and the docs say use an AES module
>>provided separately...  Is there a standard module that works alike or
>>an AES module that works alike but with better encryption?
> 
> 
> If you mean a module in the distribution, the answer is no, for
> political reasons.
> 
.....I'm also missing the rotor module and regret that something useful 
was warned about and now removed with no plugin replacement.

I had understood that this was because rotor was insecure, but you 
mention politics. Are other useful modules to suffer from politics?

What exactly are/were the political reasons for rotor removal?

I might add that the source for rotormodule is still easily obtainable 
and can be compiled trivially as an extension for Python-2.4. Does the 
Python community take a position on the sources of removed modules?
-- 
Robin Becker