Oct. 12, 2014
7:50 a.m.
On 10/11/2014 12:31 AM, holger krekel wrote:
I understand that as a fairly generic security statement. But I was trying to rather ask about use cases and scenarios where precisely the --extra-index-url option is useful and to be recommended. I'd be grateful if Nick or you could still describe use cases, especially outside PEP470 external links context (the option existed before so i presume there must be some use cases).
I use it to have a local repository of wheels for projects that do not (yet) host wheels on PyPI. I want the fallback to PyPI should newer versions be released. Paul