[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.355,1.356

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv17421/Misc

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Break SSL support out of _socket module and place it into a new
helper module _ssl.

The support for the RAND_* APIs in _ssl is now only enabled
for OpenSSL 0.9.5 and up since they were added in that
release.

Note that socketmodule.* should really be renamed to _socket.* --
unfortunately, this seems to lose the CVS history of the file.

Please review and test... I was only able to test the header file 
chaos in socketmodule.c/h on Linux. The test run through fine
and compiles don't give errors or warnings.

WARNING: This patch does *not* include changes to the various 
non-Unix build process files.



Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.355
retrieving revision 1.356
diff -C2 -d -r1.355 -r1.356
*** NEWS	10 Feb 2002 21:42:47 -0000	1.355
--- NEWS	16 Feb 2002 18:23:30 -0000	1.356
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*** 22,25 ****
--- 22,29 ----
  Library
  
+ - socket module: the SSL support was broken out of the main
+   _socket module C helper and placed into a new _ssl helper
+   which now gets imported by socket.py if available and working.
+ 
  - encodings package: added aliases for all supported IANA character
    sets