Re: Cutting support for OpenSSL 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 in 17~?

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Cutting support for OpenSSL 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 in 17~?
Date: 2023-09-07 23:48:12
Message-ID: ZPphPLW+WXY0D1GW@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 01:44:11PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Sadly I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if there are 1.0.2 users on modern
> operating systems, especially given its LTS status (which OpenSSL hasn't even
> capped but sells by "for as long as it remains commercially viable to do so"
> basis).

Yes, I would not be surprised by that either. TBH, I don't like much
the fact that we rely on OpenSSL to decide when we should cut it.
Particularly since all the changes given to it after it got EOL'd are
close source at this point.

> That being said, my gut feeling is that 3.x has gotten pretty good
> market penetration.

Perhaps.
--
Michael

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