It is not hyperbolic at all. You can get permissions for a certain set
of modules (the stdlib), but not for PyPI packages.
Of course the upgrade is not via the network, that is beside the point.
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 02:56:07PM -0700, Emily Bowman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 10:31 AM Stefan Krah <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > All the time, especially when I'm writing them. I imagine that there's
> > a huge amount of internal company code that discourages use of pip
> > installed packages as well. Or has an air-gapped network in the first
> > place.
> >
>
> That's wildly hyperbolic; not only will Python retain distutils through
> 3.11, any "airgapped" build will rest on an existing build that cannot be
> upgraded, so dependencies are a moot point.
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