Re: [sage-support] Re: The pip ssl mess on Mac OS X: ways forwards

2020-11-22 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 9:00 PM John H Palmieri wrote: > > Is it possible to create a binary distribution that relies on a system Python > 3? Those may already be built with ssl support. On macOS? Not really. But one can mimic what cpython is doing in their Python installer - they have a second

[sage-support] Re: The pip ssl mess on Mac OS X: ways forwards

2020-11-22 Thread John H Palmieri
Is it possible to create a binary distribution that relies on a system Python 3? Those may already be built with ssl support. On Sunday, November 22, 2020 at 11:24:45 AM UTC-8 watso...@gmail.com wrote: > > Right now pip doesn't work in the binary distributions due to the absence > of the ssl

[sage-support] The pip ssl mess on Mac OS X: ways forwards

2020-11-22 Thread watso...@gmail.com
Right now pip doesn't work in the binary distributions due to the absence of the ssl module. This is apparently due to licensing restrictions, thanks to the terrible license of OpenSSL. My suggestion is that we hack together a build curl+NSS, which is freely redistributable. Then as part of