Hi Pedro, On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 03:20:44PM -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Hello guys; > > With some help from Hanya I have been slowly working on an update > to our internal Python. The patch is rather big but it is necessary > because: > > - The older 2.6.1 python is basically unsupported upstream. > - Newer versions of python have better performance and solve > security issues. > - The world will be moving at some point to Python 3 and as > part of the migration path the Python developers have been adding > some compatibility in late 2.6.x and 2.7.x versions. > > The update takes python to version 2.7.3 which means nothing > will break but we can start using some Python 3 features. > > Unfortunately, due to some brokenness in GNU patch which > cannot handle some CRLF changes upstream, we will lose > a change to support SSL on the internal python but it doesn't > seem critical at this time.
Most SMTP servers use secure connection. A Python without SSL will likely break the mail merge functionality of many users. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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