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Author	jdemeyer
Recipients	Alan.Williams, Arfrever, christian.heimes, hynek, jdemeyer, robertwb, schmir, vbraun
Date	2012年10月12日.16:54:45
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Message-id	<1350060885.4.0.595218837503.issue16202@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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If you don't plan any further Python-2 releases, it would be pity that this cannot be fixed. If you do plan a further Python-2 release, I find backwards compatibility a poor excuse. I'm not saying that backwards compatibility should be totally ignored, but it certainly should not trump everything either, especially for security issues. I carefully designed my patch to have no impact for most existing secure setups (but as I said, I'm open for improvements).

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If you don't plan any further Python-2 releases, it would be pity that this cannot be fixed. If you do plan a further Python-2 release, I find backwards compatibility a poor excuse. I'm not saying that backwards compatibility should be totally ignored, but it certainly should not trump everything either, especially for security issues. I carefully designed my patch to have no impact for most existing secure setups (but as I said, I'm open for improvements).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012年10月12日 16:54:45	jdemeyer	set	recipients: + jdemeyer, christian.heimes, schmir, robertwb, Arfrever, hynek, Alan.Williams, vbraun
2012年10月12日 16:54:45	jdemeyer	set	messageid: <1350060885.4.0.595218837503.issue16202@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012年10月12日 16:54:45	jdemeyer	link	issue16202 messages
2012年10月12日 16:54:45	jdemeyer	create

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