Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Winding down 3.4

2018-08-20 Thread Larry Hastings
If they're really all wontfix, maybe we should mark them as wontfix, thus giving 3.4 a sendoff worthy of its heroic stature. Godspeed, and may a flight of angels sing thee to thy rest, //arry/ On 08/20/2018 05:52 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > "shutil copy* unsafe on POSIX - they preserve set

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Winding down 3.4

2018-08-20 Thread Michael
On 20/08/2018 14:52, Victor Stinner wrote: >> "shutil copy* unsafe on POSIX - they preserve setuid/setgit bits" >> https://bugs.python.org/issue17180 > There is no fix. A fix may break the backward compatibility. Is it really > worth it for the last 3.4 release? > My idea would be to focus on a "fi

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Winding down 3.4

2018-08-20 Thread Victor Stinner
> "shutil copy* unsafe on POSIX - they preserve setuid/setgit bits" > https://bugs.python.org/issue17180 There is no fix. A fix may break the backward compatibility. Is it really worth it for the last 3.4 release? > "XML vulnerabilities in Python" > https://bugs.python.org/issue17239 Bug inactiv

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Winding down 3.4

2018-08-13 Thread Steve Dower
“So that 3.4 dies in good health?” More like getting all its evil deeds off its chest on the death bed, I think :) Top-posted from my Windows 10 phone From: Antoine Pitrou Sent: Monday, 13 August 2018 2:59 To: Larry Hastings; python-committers; Python-Dev Subject: Re: [python-committers] Winding

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Winding down 3.4

2018-08-13 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 13/08/2018 à 11:49, Larry Hastings a écrit : > > > We of the core dev community commit to supporting Python releases for > five years.  Releases get eighteen months of active bug fixes, followed > by three and a half years of security fixes.  Python 3.4 turns 5 next > March--at which point we