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 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
