Sept. 7, 2020
12:02 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 5:14 PM Edwin Zimmerman <edwin@211mainstreet.net> wrote:
The point remains that these situations exist where it is simply impossible to run 'pip install xyz' due to network restrictions. I know this firsthand because I have written software for enforcing total internet blocks.
I'm not sure I understand how "can't hit the network" => "can't use pip". pip doesn't NEED to hit the network to be functional. The following works without hitting the network. It's even "fairly fast" if you built wheels already. :) $ pip install --no-index --find-links path/to/source/tarballs/and/wheels my-amazing-super-important-package -- Pradyun