Https and proxy support in urllib2

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On 08/05/2009 08:18 PM, Martin Pool wrote:
> 2009/8/6 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
>> 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?
> 
This is what I would favor as an end user.  As even more of an end-user,
I'd put heavy emphasis on the "at least".  Some platforms move forward
at a slow pace because the people who install them want to follow a
conservative update strategy WRT their OS.  This means that they won't
jump to the next release immediately when it comes out.  Meanwhile the
people who use the machines that the IT department has installed have a
need to move to the latest bazaar because of compatibility with another
project or in order to run a new app that only works with the new API.
The longer this is possible, the better for the end-user.

> 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.
> 
<nod>.  The ratio of adoption of bazaar beta/development release to the
RHEL (or Ubuntu LTS, etc) is an important consideration, though.  What
would be painful is if some projects move to a new branch format or API
supported by the beta/development release of bazaar and people who want
to work with them or use that plugin are unable to because the version
that runs on their platform cannot interoperate.

Also note, the RHEL6 beta isn't even out yet so trying to gage how long
it will be until RHEL6 is released is going to be imprecise speculation.

-Toshio

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