Dry-run "find" or equivalent option to list wheels and other files that will be downloaded

[schivmeister]

Dry-run "find" or equivalent option to list wheels and other files that will be downloaded

[notatallshaw]

Would it be sufficient for dry run not to download the files? #12603

Or do you explicitly want pip to determine what will need to be downloaded as well as what will be installed? (Like what conda does).

Also, regarding your p.s, there is a PR that has made good progress to add parallel downloads #12388

[schivmeister]

Would it be sufficient for dry run not to download the files? #12603

Or do you explicitly want pip to determine what will need to be downloaded as well as what will be installed? (Like what conda does).

Also, regarding your p.s, there is a PR that has made good progress to add parallel downloads #12388

Thanks for noticing! A dry-run option like #12603 to not download full wheels is indeed a very welcome feature, but it wouldn't output a simple list -- it would output a report that needs further processing. Of course, anyone is free to dismiss this distinction.

Regarding my postscript on multithreaded downloads, unfortunately -- unless I misunderstood the corresponding details and discussion -- #12388 is still about parallel file downloads, not parallel connections per download, like what one could achieve with something like https://pypi.org/project/python-axel/.