[issue12804] "make test" fails on systems without internet access

[Nadeem Vawda]

Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.vawda at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Change reverted. "make test" should run a comprehensive test of
> Python's facilities

Fair enough.

> If it is easy to detect network availability programmatically, we could
> just use the skip system.

+1. I don't know if there is a reasonable way to do this, but if so, that
would be the best solution.

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stage:  -> needs patch
title: make test should not enable the urlfetch resource -> "make test" fails on systems without internet access

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