On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 07:29:07 +0000
> Cory Benfield <c...@lukasa.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 23 March 2014 at 04:32:17, Terry Reedy 
>> (tjre...@udel.edu(mailto:tjre...@udel.edu)) wrote:
>>> Instead, I think the PEP should propose a special series of server
>>> enhancement releases that are based on the final 2.7 maintenance release
>>> (2.7.8 or 2.7.9) but which have have a different application-specific
>>> enhancement policy.
>> 
>> This is an interesting idea. My biggest problem with it is that, at least
>> with the ssl library, these aren’t server-only problems. If we suggest that
>> they are, we end up in the same position we’re in right now (that is, hurting
>> the internet).
>> 
>> For example, Python 2.7’s ssl module lacks the OP_NO_COMPRESSION option for
>> OpenSSL,
> 
> This is easy to change in a bugfix release, though. Someone just has to
> open an issue and write a patch.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Antoine.
> 
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I already did open an issue and write a patch :)

There’s someone on that issue saying that flipping that without a way to flip 
it back
would break their application.

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