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Proposed policy change for handling network security enhancements

[Python-Dev] PEP 466: Proposed policy change for handling network security enhancements [Python-Dev] PEP 466: Proposed policy change for handling network security enhancementsDonald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Sun Mar 23 02:30:17 CET 2014
On Mar 22, 2014, at 8:55 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Moving the affected modules out of the standard library proper and
> bundling the critical ones along with pip instead is indeed another
> alternative. However, that approach introduces additional issues of
> its own - I'll cover some of them in the next PEP update, but it would
> be good to have someone explicitly trying to make the case that a PyPI
> backport would be simpler for the overall ecosystem than my suggested
> approach.

FWIW pip as of right now has a policy of no C dependencies outside of the
stdlib. CPython isn’t our only target and C dependencies don’t work very
well on PyPy (if at all) and it makes the situation much more difficult on
platforms where there are no compiler toolchains (Windows).

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