Thank you Ariel. I will see if I can split the patches according to the LF type to solve that issue :(.
Pedro. >________________________________ > From: Ariel Constenla-Haile <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 5:48 PM >Subject: Re: Bug 119384 : Python update coming after 3.4.1 release > >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 > > >
