Documentation for the pip accelerator

The pip accelerator makes pip (the Python package manager) faster by keeping pip off the internet when possible and by caching compiled binary distributions. It can bring a 10 minute run of pip down to less than a minute. You can find the pip accelerator in the following places:

This is the documentation for version 0.43 of the pip accelerator. The documentation consists of two parts:

  • The documentation for users of the pip-accel command
  • The documentation for developers who wish to extend and/or embed the functionality of pip-accel

Introduction & usage

The first part of the documentation is the readme which is targeted at users of the pip-accel command. Here are the topics discussed in the readme:

Internal API documentation

The second part of the documentation is targeted at developers who wish to extend and/or embed the functionality of pip-accel. Here are the contents of the API documentation: