On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
2. ``pip install .`` silences build output, which may make sense for some usecases, but for numpy it just sits there for minutes with no output after printing "Running setup.py install for numpy". Users will think it hangs and Ctrl-C it. https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2732
I tend to agree with the commentary there that for end users this is different but no worse than the current situation where we spit out pages of "errors" that don't mean anything :-). I posted a suggestion on that bug that might help with the apparent hanging problem.
For the record, this is now fixed in pip's "develop" branch and should be in the next release. For commands like 'setup.py install', pip now displays a spinner that ticks over whenever the underlying process prints to stdout/stderr. So if the underlying process hangs, then the spinner will stop (it's not just lying to you), but normally it works nicely. https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/3224 -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org