I explained to Kwankyu that I mean "mirroring" in the usual sense of this word, not the one he thought.
OK. Sage tarballs and the wheels are uploaded to our mirror sites. So wheel packages end up in the mirror sites. This is what you say "mirroring PyPI". You object to "mirroring PyPI", that is, wheel packages. For its replacement, you propose to fetch wheels directly from PyPI by switching to "pip" packages. For users installing sage from sage tarball, this (switching to "pip" packages) means (again) to assume internet connection at install time. Right? After some thought, now (A) "assuming internet connection for users installing from sage tarball" sounds a sort of oxymoron, because (A) defeats the purpose of providing tarball in the first place. Why tarball? It is for users with no internet connection. Otherwise, you can simply download sage source from github by git clone and the wheels from PyPI. -- 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/46b5c78c-ba99-4cf7-9119-723ee7bad1f7n%40googlegroups.com.
