On 31 January 2017 at 14:54, Cory Benfield <c...@lukasa.co.uk> wrote: > > So C# applications are Windows-native safe on Windows, and are a crapshoot > elsewhere. For Java vs Python, I’d say we’re slightly ahead right now.
That's precisely the sort of answer I was after. Many thanks. The additional detail is interesting, but starts being scary again. I think the "advantage" languages like Java has is that no-one really discusses the details - so it seems like things are fine - but it devolves into a "how do we get this to work?" mess if you try to do anything hard. That's not a real advantage, but unfortunately politics often trumps technical accuracy in my area of work :-( (My job is often to make technically correct politically acceptable - who knew that's what "coding" really was?) > Again, the long-term solution to this fix is to allow us to use SChannel and > SecureTransport to provide TLS on the relevant platforms. This will also let > people use GnuTLS or NSS or whatever other TLS implementations float their > boat on other Unices. I’ll be bringing a draft PEP in front of python-dev > sometime in the next month to start this work: if you’re interested, I > recommend helping out with that process! That sounds fantastic. I'm not sure how much I'd be able to help, beyond whining "but I don't care about all this, just make it work and make it eeeeasyyyyyy" :-) but I'll certainly watch the discussions and do what I can. Thanks, Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
