32ad881 python/py-setuptools/Portfile

Thu Feb 22 05:48:56 UTC 2018

On 2018-2-7 20:37 , Joshua Root wrote:
> IMO two better possibilities to pursue would be to ask the operators of
> the redirector to allow older systems to connect, and to get our
> distfile mirroring working.

Turns out the TLS 1.2 requirement is coming from python.org's CDN
provider, and what's more, it will be applied to *everything* as of June
30th. So all these master_sites gymnastics will become ineffective in 4
months anyway. Mirroring is really the only way forward.

<https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2017-January/029970.html>

- Josh