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| author | Tzu-ping Chung <uranusjr@gmail.com> | 2023-04-14 05:12:09 +0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-04-14 05:12:09 +0800 |
| commit | 5d3f24dac1c461ec095d879aa4984ae09916be88 (patch) | |
| tree | 7bf9c8401330ac5c3fe1288434ffa233bb449966 | |
| parent | 74133f810cb2507ebac3fcaa73098f0370b3aab5 (diff) | |
| parent | d914ffa92700e938ebc5327683605606dfdfacf1 (diff) | |
| download | pip-5d3f24dac1c461ec095d879aa4984ae09916be88.tar.gz | |
Merge pull request #11954 from honnix/patch-1
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/html/user_guide.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | news/11954.doc.rst | 1 |
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diff --git a/docs/html/user_guide.rst b/docs/html/user_guide.rst index 966b200f4..9a6f2901c 100644 --- a/docs/html/user_guide.rst +++ b/docs/html/user_guide.rst @@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ Logically, a Requirements file is just a list of :ref:`pip install` arguments placed in a file. Note that you should not rely on the items in the file being installed by pip in any particular order. +Requirements files can also be served via a URL, e.g. +http://example.com/requirements.txt besides as local files, so that they can +be stored and served in a centralized place. + In practice, there are 4 common uses of Requirements files: 1. Requirements files are used to hold the result from :ref:`pip freeze` for the @@ -248,6 +252,10 @@ undocumented and unsupported quirks from the previous implementation, and stripped constraints files down to being purely a way to specify global (version) limits for packages. +Same as requirements files, constraints files can also be served via a URL, +e.g. http://example.com/constraints.txt, so that your organization can store and +serve them in a centralized place. + .. _`Installing from Wheels`: diff --git a/news/11954.doc.rst b/news/11954.doc.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..946b4057f --- /dev/null +++ b/news/11954.doc.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Make it clear that requirements/constraints file can be a URL |