On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:49:21 +0100 Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > 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]
That's Travis-CI's problem. And hopefully they'll migrate to Ubuntu 16.04 soon (it's almost 2 years old...). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
