Respect pip config

[pawamoy]

Following #5, I'm working in a corporate environment and we use a private pypi mirror. Would it be possible for pip-download to respect pip's config so I don't have to manually specify the index-url on the command line?

Or maybe I can configure this in pip-download JSON configuration file?

Also, thank you very much for this tool, it is highly convenient!!

[youngquan]

Got it! How about this priorities：pip's config which have been configured > the time zone > pypi.org？I also think the way using the time zone to pick the pypi index should be optimized or be removed. Do you have some idea?

[pawamoy]

Thans for the quick answer 🙂

For the priority, I'd say:

1. pip's config (if it exists and index-url is set)
2. time zone
3. pypi.org

I personally never needed another public mirror than pypi.org, so I can't say if the time-zone-based approach is good or not, I'll let you decide!

For reference, here's my pip config file:

[global]
trusted-host = our-private-index.domain.com
index-url = https://username:[email protected]/index/simple/
cert = /home/user/certs/ca-bundle.crt

Not sure what internals you are using, and therefore if you could just read index-url (note the credentials in it for basic auth) or would have to read the rest as well, like trusted-host and cert.

Let me know if I can be of any help 🙂 (I could send a PR of course but I'm not sure when I'll have the time to do so!)

[di]

This is probably blocked on di/pip-api#44.

[pawamoy]

In the end I'll close this because it's very easy to set up an alias with the right index. Feel free to reopen if you think it is still an interesting feature!