Command to inspect distributions not installed locally

[lainq]

What's the problem this feature will solve?

show command for packages not installed. It helps us to view details about packages that the user is going to install.

Describe the solution you'd like

Maybe fetch information about the package and display it on the screen.

Alternative Solutions

Additional context

[uranusjr]

show is for installed packages. We are currently working on a new index command that interacts with packages on indexes (i.e. not installed). A pip index inspect that shows wheel metadata could make sense.

[lainq]

show is for installed packages. We are currently working on a new index command that interacts with packages on indexes (i.e. not installed). A pip index inspect that shows wheel metadata could make sense.

That's interesting 👍🏾

[sbidoul]

Shall we close this, as pip index exists (albeit as an experimental feature) ?

[uranusjr]

Doesn’t pip inspect still only deal with installed distributions? This one is asking for a command to inspect distributions on an index.

[sbidoul]

Doesn’t pip inspect still only deal with installed distributions? This one is asking for a command to inspect distributions on an index.

Oops, sorry, I meant pip index (I updated my comment above)

[pradyunsg]

We should keep this open, until we add the ability to pip index, to get the same information as pip show (mainly, metadata) from the index.