Commit e2eb3e09 authored by Jason Madden's avatar Jason Madden

Tweak docs about older versions of 3.3 not tested or working with SSL.

Fixes #856

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parent dfeb0d02
......@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Check out the detailed changelog_ for this version.
Get gevent
==========
Gevent runs on Python >= 2.7, Python >= 3.3, or PyPy >= 4.0.1
Gevent runs on Python >= 2.7, Python >= 3.3.5, or PyPy >= 4.0.1
(but not PyPy3) (*Note*: PyPy is not supported in Windows). On all
platforms, installing setuptools is recommended (this is done
automatically if working in a virtual environment).
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......@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ supported. (Users of older versions of Python 2 need to install gevent
1.0.x (2.5) or 1.1.x (2.6); Python 3 is not supported by 1.0.) gevent requires the
greenlet__ library.
.. note:: For Python 3.3, version 3.3.5 or newer is required to use
the gevent's SSL support due to bugs in the standard library of older
versions. For Python 2, 2.7.9 or newer is recommended for
the best SSL support; 2.7.8 is also tested although it
offers a less-secure SSL module.
gevent 1.1 also runs on PyPy 2.6.1 and above, although 5.0 or above is
strongly recommended. On PyPy, there are no external dependencies.
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