Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Aug 29 19:48:46 EDT 2016

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On 8/29/2016 5:20 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
> On 2016-08-29 23:00, Gregory P. Smith wrote:

>> Lets make 3.7 require a higher version. The common OSS OS distros of its
>> time will be better prepared.

Especially is warned.

> My multissl test script allows me to compile and test _ssl.c and
> _hashopenssl.c with multiple versions of OpenSSL and LibreSSL in less
> than a minute. For 3.6 I have verified source compatibility with 0.9.8zc
> (maybe even older) up to 1.1.0.
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> My argument with MAL is about future features for 3.7. I'm not planning
> to require 1.0.2 APIs for 3.6 yet. This may change in case new security
> issues are found. I might clean up the ssl module and require 0.9.8zc+
> during beta, though.

So, in 3.6, and maybe even 3.5.3, add a deprecation warning when OSSL < 
1.0.2 is used.


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Terry Jan Reedy

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