Https and proxy support in urllib2

[Martin Pool]

2009/8/6 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
> On 08/04/2009 04:08 PM, Martin Pool wrote:
>>>>>>>> "jam" == John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
>
>>>    jam> By the way, it just came up last week that properly supporting python2.4
>>>    jam> was important. It seems RHEL 4 is still a python2.4 only system. From
>>>    jam> what I can tell RHEL is considered to have a total 7-year lifetime with:
>>
>> If we keep supporting 2.0 on python2.4 we could potentially go to
>> requiring 2.5 for later releases, which might be nice.  It will take
>> some thought though, if later releases add formats that 2.0 can't
>> read.  Let's get that out first then think about it.
>>
> Actually -- RHEL3 has python-2.2, RHEL4 has python-2.3, and  RHEL5 has
> python-2.4.  RHEL6 is not out yet but it's based on Fedora (which is
> currently on python-2.6) so it's very likely (but not assured) that it
> will have python-2.6.
>
> The supported lifetime of RHEL is given on this page (which JAM probably
> already found for his explanation of the 7 year lifetime):
>  http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
>
> The important facts from the bottom of that page are that RHEL5 is
> supported until March 31, 2014 and that RHEL6 isn't out yet.

So what should we conclude from that?

Perhaps that even development releases should work on python2.4 for a
bit longer, at least until RHEL6 is out and until other important
platforms have also moved forward?

Perhaps it would be acceptable to have some beta/development releases
that only work on Red Hat's own development branch, but it would be a
shame to do a supported release that does not yet work on any
supported release of Fedora/RH.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>