Avoid using pip for download models

[thewh1teagle]

I use misaki package from pypi which uses spacy.
When I run the script that uses it, it tried first to download something from pypi using pip but I use uv which doesn't have pip by default.

I can see in

• spaCy/spacy/cli/download.py

  Line 161 in b3c46c3

  def download_model(

That you spawn pip for fetch models.
Can you fetch it with requests instead or letting the user decide where and when to fetch it?

[omri374]

You could consider downloading the models from Github: https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases

[thewh1teagle]

But how can I prevent it from downloading automatically?