Dmitrii Pasechnik added the comment:
The script install_certificates.command depends upon pip, it calls pip to
install certifi. Thus it's no less "optional" than pip.
And pip is only functional, and it able to do the installation in question,
due to it including the certificate in
Ned Deily added the comment:
Thanks for the suggestion but that is not a workable solution for two reasons.
One, pip is an optional install with the python.org installer so we cannot
depend on it being available. More importantly, from a packaging point of
view, the internal composition of
New submission from Dmitrii Pasechnik :
Currently (e.g. on the released Python 2.7.16)
Mac/BuildScript/resources/install_certificates.command does install certifi
module from the net and symlinks its cacert.pem to provide openssl with a
working certificate. The same task may be accomplished
