[stdlib-sig] new package idea: socket

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> > And so you are objecting to having a socket package with the ssl
>  > module in it because there used to be a socket.ssl or somehow the SSL
>  > code was part of the socket module?
>
>  If you look at 2.6, you'll see that using the old "socket.ssl" is now
>  deprecated, to shift over to the new top-level ssl module.  Would be
>  max confusing to shift back to the bad old ssl module.  In addition,
>  this ruins the porting scheme we worked out, which is to be able to
>  deploy the new shiny ssl module in parallel with the old bad
>  socket.ssl module.

Yeah, that kills it. Plus socket.socket.socket is just too
unreasonable to allow.

Damn, that's really too bad.

-Brett