[erlang-questions] Patch package OTP 18.3.2 released

Fred Hebert mononcqc@REDACTED
Wed Apr 27 18:33:39 CEST 2016


On 04/27, Ingela Andin wrote:
>Hi!
>
>We promise to be backwards compatible, not bug compatible. As a workaround
>you may use the openSSL string names for cipher suites this should work for
>all versions.
>I think that the tuple format has turned out to be a nuisance for more than
>one reason, and we may deprecate it in favour of for instance maps in the
>future.

Given the documentation for SSL mentions:

> Returns a list of supported cipher suites. cipher_suites() is 
> equivalent to cipher_suites(erlang). Type openssl is provided for 
> backwards compatibility with the old SSL, which used OpenSSL.

I'm a bit hesitant about using the openssl format here, since it does 
not sound like the modern approach that should be taken.

I've opened up a pull request with the required changes for what I 
believe would make things work: https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1033

Regards,
Fred.



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