BLD: Add an explicit message if certifi is unavailable

QuLogic · QuLogic · commit 340eee21141a · 2022-11-26T02:43:50.000-05:00
If you only do a build step (i.e., `python setup.py build`), it does not
go through all the build dependency machinery, and then mysteriously
says it 'cannot download' a URL, but really it's a missing dependency.
diff --git a/setupext.py b/setupext.py
@@ -118,6 +118,13 @@ def get_and_extract_tarball(urls, sha, dirname):
     """
     toplevel = Path("build", dirname)
     if not toplevel.exists():  # Download it or load it from cache.
+        try:
+            import certifi  # noqa
+        except ImportError as e:
+            raise ImportError(
+                f"`certifi` is unavailable ({e}) so unable to download any of "
+                f"the following: {urls}.") from None
+
         Path("build").mkdir(exist_ok=True)
         for url in urls:
             try:
