<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Lennart Regebro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:regebro@gmail.com" target="_blank">regebro@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:11 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <<a href="mailto:mal@egenix.com">mal@egenix.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Looks like a slippery road if you try to make pip guess<br>
> what the right installation dir should be, e.g. by trying<br>
> to detect that it's running in a virtualenv, the Python3<br>
> venv, pyrun or a user's local Python installation.<br>
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</div>Right. Refuse the temptation to guess.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>The easy and default flow should be the safe one.</div><div style><br></div><div style>As Ned Batchelder noted <a href="http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201302/war_is_peace.html">http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201302/war_is_peace.html</a> we're better off having "dangerous_pip_install" not be the easy or default flow. So I guess we're only left with the route of a painful deprecation process.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>Yuval</div></div></div></div>