> On Jan 20, 2017, at 3:50 AM, Diego Costantini <diego.costant...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I also noticed that I am on pip 8 which deprecates --download already, and on > latest documentation <https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#id20>, they > still reference only that old syntax, but they also mention something that > might have changed: > > Note that pip install --download will look in your wheel cache first, before > trying to download from PyPI. If you've never installed your requirements > before, you won't have a wheel cache for those items. > > In that case, since some of the packages never provided a whl, how would I > have them in my wheel cache?
The wheel cache is filled with wheels that pip built locally. It’s possible that ``pip install —download`` gives you one of those locally built wheels but pip download does not. — Donald Stufft -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "virtualenv" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to python-virtualenv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to python-virtualenv@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/python-virtualenv. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
