[Python-ideas] Remote package/module imports through HTTP/S

[Guido van Rossum]

For security reasons. AFAIK HTTPS wasn't even invented at the time.

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:44 AM, John Torakis <john.torakis at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On 23/08/2017 21:41, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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> This isn't ever going to be a standard feature. It's available as a
> third-party package and that's fine.
>
> I'd like to add a historic note -- this was first proposed around 1995 by
> Michael McLay. (Sorry, I don't have an email sitting around, but I'm sure
> he brought this up at or around the first Python workshop at NIST in 1995
> -- I was his guest at NIST for several months at the time.)
>
> Woah! I was 2 years old at that time! Little did I know!
> Can I ask why it got rejected the first time?
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