Re: getmail with python 3 adpatations

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Matthias Andree <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The thing is that Python 2 has essentially gone out of maintenance with
> its terminus release 2.7.18 last month,
[...]
> Also, if you look at Python 2.7's history, it has seen several massive
> improvements to its SSL modules in the more recent versions,

I'm aware of all this, of course.  I strongly encourage all getmail users to
be using the latest compatible Python releases, though getmail still supports
older versions of Python for compatibility/support reasons.  There's a lot of
getmail out there running on appliances that have not necessarily been
upgraded since they were first deployed.

The bit that sticks in my craw is distros/others screaming that the sky is
falling and they need to immediately drop all Python 2 applications because
omg omg Python 2 is no longer officially supported.  getmail is extremely
unlikely to be the source of any security holes just because Python 2 isn't
getting updated.

Charles
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