I am working on a Windows system with limited download access. My workaround is to download an app into a local folder. Then in the virtualenv I use pip install -e download folder to install. For instance, pip install -e c:\django\test_virtualenv\South-0.8.4 and South is installed in the virtual environment.
In the virtualenv I am trying to install django-user-accounts, using the same method. Unfortunately, this app has two dependencies listed in setup.py, namely, "django-appconf>=0.6", "pytz>=2013.9". You can see these in the install_requires section in the setup.py file.
I was unable to redirect to a local folder such as c:\download\django-appconf
This lead to the question whether arguments were available when using install_required (part of setuptools). install_requires in setup.py depending on installed Python version points out install_requires takes just a list.
In http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#declaring-dependencies the text talks about "limited network access" and "manually download all the eggs to a single directory". This doc also suggests using easy_install with the -f option.
I have a neat system operational at the moment using pip and I am asking if anyone has found a way to redirect the downloading of dependencies from a local folder, no access to network resources for download.
Tommy.
