[tahoe-dev] seeking volunteer for many hours labor Re: [tahoe-lafs] #773: run through installation on Windows

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko at zooko.com>
writes:

> Remove the remote URLs from the "find_links" section in the setup.cfg  
> to prevent the build process from looking there.  However, it will  
> still look on http://pypi.python.org as well as follow links from  
> there to other sites.  Perhaps the easiest way to keep it from  
> depending on remote packages at build time is to turn off your  
> network.  :-/

If all the dependencies it needs are available in $PYTHONPATH,
easy_install(1) will not try to contact pypi.python.org et al. (That's
what the NixOS package does.)

Thanks,
Ludo'.