> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:49:43 -0700
> From: marc.tompk...@gmail.com
> To: tutor@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] pip install in a virtualenv *without* internet?
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Alex Kleider <aklei...@sonic.net> wrote:
>
> > I guess if you 'never' have an internet connection what I'm trying to do
> > won't work,
> > but I'm addressing a different use case: I have connectivity in some
> > environments
> > but would like to be able to do a pip install at times when there is no
> > connectivity.
>
>
> I'm wondering: does the solution absolutely have to involve pip? I ask
> because I first started with Python right about the time pip was being
> created, and I didn't actually start using it until about a year ago Prior
> to that, I downloaded my dependencies on my development machine, saved them
> to a flash drive, and wrote a script (well, technically a batch file - most
> of my clients use Windows) to automate offline installations.
The goal is most important: the installation should "just work", so "python
setup.py install --user" for everything that is needed (in a .bat) might also
work.
Btw, today I found out about the pip option "--target" that allows you to
install to an alternative path. Handy in case you (like me) don't necessarily
have write access to site-packages. You do need to prepend it to PYTHONPATH.
That's nicer than prepending to sys.path, IMHO.
> pip is certainly more convenient, and I'm quite grateful to its developers
> - but it's a relatively recent solution to the problem, and it's far from
> the only way to do things.
I agree, but there could also be too many options (do we still need
easy_install?). As if the ideal situation is yet to come. I played a bit with
conda install and it seems *very* convenient. Like a combination of setuptools,
pip, pythonbrew and virtualenv/wrapper.
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