# Dependency notation including the index URL

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/dependency-notation-including-the-index-url/5659>\
**Category:** Packaging\
**Created:** [November 5, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/dependency-notation-including-the-index-url/5659 "2020-11-05T08:39:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/dependency-notation-including-the-index-url/5659/61 "2020-11-13T09:35:32Z")

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> [@xafer](#):
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> An other solution I did not see mentioned here and that might be worth exploring would be a lightweight PEP-503 private index/proxy that developers could launch on their computer and that could implement all kinds of routing/filtering between multiple private/public indices, package directories, S3 buckets, etc. Developers would simply point `pip` to this local server with `--index-url` and be setup.

Another somewhat related tool: [_pypicloud_](https://pypi.org/project/pypicloud/). Still not what you really asked for, but might be useful to someone. @uranusjr’s [_simpleindex_](https://pypi.org/project/simpleindex/) announced [here](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-503-simple-repository-index-by-declaring-routing-rules/5690) is what you really had in mind, right?

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