On 2018-01-13 14:23, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:54:33 +0100 > Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: >> >> If we agree to drop support for OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 1.0.1, then I can land >> bunch of useful goodies like proper hostname verification [2], proper >> fix for IP address in SNI TLS header [3], PEP 543 compatible Certificate >> and PrivateKey types (support loading certs and keys from file and >> memory) [4], and simplified cipher suite configuration [5]. I can >> finally clean up _ssl.c during the beta phase, too. > > Given the annoyance of supporting old OpenSSL versions, I'd say +1 to > this. > > We'll have to deal with the complaints of users of Debian oldstable, > CentOS 6 and RHEL 6, though.
It's more of an issue for Travis CI. The Python 3.7-dev target won't have a functional ssl module. Travis either has to update their build base to 16.04, provide a custom build of OpenSSL, or all packages have to use a container. [1] Christian [1] https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5821#issuecomment-214452987 _______________________________________________ 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
