[Distutils] setuptools process_url doesn't handle URLErrors gracefullly

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:52 AM 5/14/2007 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>This problem is rather serious.  As we rely more and more on
>setuptools, it needs to be robust in the presence of this sort of
>failure.
>
>Phillip, If I fix this, can we get a timely release with the fix?

Is sometime next week sufficient to be described as timely?  If so, then yes.