As far as I understand, the proposal is to allow sage "packages" to be closer to more standard python prerequisites by letting them be resolved by pip packages. By default the package content would be fetched, as pip does, and that would mean the default configuration for sage would require internet at install time.
I also understand that there are people who are concerned that this may not reflect all scenarios where people want to install sagemath and they would prefer if there is a clear method to install sagemath from a well-defined set of archives (one big one?) that need to be transferred to the target machine, after which the install can proceed without internet access. Searching for "pip without internet" gives various hits. One that at least superficially looks like a reasonable starting point: https://thilinamad.medium.com/install-python-packages-via-pip-without-an-internet-connection-b3dee83b4c2d but there are also stackoverflow answers that look relevant. It looks like, with a bit of work, pip can be convinced to look at local files to satisfy prerequisites and packages. Hence, if we keep that in mind it seems to me that having an archive of "pip packages" would be doable if we ensure pip gets used in a way that makes it easy to reconfigure the place to look for prereqs. Then it may be fairly easy to make an offline installable version of sagemath, either by packing a big tarball that includes the pip content or by making that available in a separate ball, with an easy switch (or perhaps we can configure pip to first look locally and then try the internet? Or the other way around? that it could transition gracefully between different ways of satisfying requirements). So, perhaps we can have our pips and networkless installs too? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/db063109-24ab-4b0b-abf1-eac3d1a8003en%40googlegroups.com.
