[Python-Dev] Supported versions of OpenSSL

[Paul Moore]

On 31 August 2016 at 00:55, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
> I find that users of such systems either use only what their distro itself
> supplies (ie: ancient versions at that point) or are fully comfortable
> building any dependencies their own software needs. If they are comfortable
> building a CPython runtime in the first place, they should be comfortable
> building required libraries. Nothing new there

In our environment (corporate systems locked to older OS releases,
with Python *not* a strategic solution but used for ad-hoc automation)
it's quite common to find only an ancient version of Python available,
but want to build a new version without any ability to influence
corporate IT to allow new versions of the necessary libraries.

But I strongly agree, this is *my* problem, and Python policy should
not be based on the idea that what I want to do "should" be supported.

So +1 on the proposed change here.

Paul