On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 02:06:14PM +0200, Tomáš Orsava wrote: > Hi Richard, > porting Python 2.7 to openssl 3.0 doesn't really make sense to me. > > We ship Python 2.7 so that developers can test code that needs to work on > Python 2.7 in various deployments like old CentOS/RHEL/etc. Fedora aims to > be a developer-friendly distro and so we want to provide the tools to do > that. Even if it's possible to port Python 2.7 to openssl 3.0 safely with > reasonable effort, which I doubt, it would lead to a different Python 2.7, > which would no longer work as a testing ground for people developing for old > deployments. IMHO that's not a very compelling use case. Python 2.7 on Fedora is already quite different from RHEL in terms of crypto, simply by virtue of Fedora having quite different crypto-policies applied. If people want to test compatibility with older RHEL/CentOS from their Fedora dev machine, then containers are the answer and will give much higher confidence level. Containers already dominate in cases where people want to test software against different OS, without having the burden of maintaining a full VM. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
