(Not sure how the Roundup handles email replies but I'm hoping this goes to
the right place)

I think it would be better if the downloading got invoked during the
interpreter build process -- to download the wheels and add them to the
final distribution. This lets us remove the wheels from the source
tree/version control and prevents needing to change the PEP for this change.

Functionally, I imagine having all the download logic in some sort of
ensurepip._bootstrap which has all the download logic and that getting
invoked in the build process. `python -m ensurepip` not hitting the
internet is a good invariant to keep.

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 8:54 PM, Eric V. Smith <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> Eric V. Smith <eric@trueblade.com> added the comment:
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> And I don't mean to sound like a total downer. I just think it's important
> that we recognize all of the use cases.
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> Thanks for your work on this.
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