`download` script requires pip

[s-banach]

I use uv without pip, so I get the following:

(venv) PS C:\Users\me\> python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
C:\Users\me\.venv\Scripts\python.exe: No module named pip

I don't think you need a script to call pip for users. If your models are all pip-installable packages, they should depend on their supported versions of spacy. Then the user's dependency resolver can find the correct model version to download.

[ACH9001]

for uv users, uv pip install pip

[zk1989]

currently a side-effect of this limitation is that it forces users of package managers other than pip to have to use two in their project... uv said it's spaCy-specific design and they will not adapt to it (https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/7327#issuecomment-3352652323). do you plan on introducing support for uv / poetry users (without mandatory pip installation)?

[zanieb]

spaCy can also just add pip as a dependency, if you want to continue with this approach. You shouldn't assume pip is installed otherwise though.