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authorHonnix <honnix@users.noreply.github.com>2023-04-12 22:55:18 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-04-12 22:55:18 +0200
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Make it clear that constraints file can be a URL
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@@ -242,6 +242,10 @@ organisation and use that everywhere. If the thing being installed requires
"helloworld" to be installed, your fixed version specified in your constraints
file will be used.
+Constraints file can be served via a URL, e.g.
+http://example.com/constraints.txt instead of only a local file, so that your
+organization can provide constraints files online from a centraliazed place.
+
Constraints file support was added in pip 7.1. In :ref:`Resolver
changes 2020` we did a fairly comprehensive overhaul, removing several
undocumented and unsupported quirks from the previous implementation,