Post #2337904
2026-04-28 10:05 UTC
@hynek@mastodon.social A pillow/PIL-style long term replacement would also be largely fine at the ecosystem level. But yeah, always mixed feelings around the human implications of maintenance situations deteriorating to the point that wholesale forks seem necessary (and that's before the paranoid part of my brain starts pondering the potential impact on supply chain security concerns).
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@mwb@fosstodon.org 2026-04-28 15:40
@ancoghlan@mastodon.social @hynek@mastodon.social I really tried preventing a fork by asking multiple times if we could please pretty please have a release of httpx, but that was not happening. We actually do the pillow/pil style thing so that you can import httpxyz and your third-party package that imports httpx will benefit. And I know about the supply chain stuff, it will take a long time for people to switch because they have to start trusting me & my co-maintainer ;-)