[Python-Dev] backport new server-side SSL to older Pythons?

[Bill Janssen]

I'd like to be able to backport this server-side SSL support to older
Pythons, like the 2.3.4 in CentOS 4 and the 2.3.5 in OS X 10.4.

So I'd like to move all the SSL stuff out of the "socket" module, and
add a new top-level module called "ssl" (or "networking.ssl", or
whatever the Py3K naming scheme says it should be).  The socket module
will then re-export a function from that module as socket.ssl(), which
will continue to do exactly what it does now.  More advanced users will
call functions in the "ssl" module.

Then I can bundle up the new versions of _ssl.c and ssl.py with a
setup.py file, and provide that as an add-on for older Python
installations.

Does this make sense?

Bill