On Sep 25, 2014, at 4:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:34:31 +0100 Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On 25 September 2014 02:08, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
Indeed. Moving towards having --user as the norm is definitely something we want to look at for pip. One of the biggest concerns is how well-exercised the whole user site directory area is in practice.
What do you mean by well-exercised?
Basically, although --user is available in pip (and the underlying facilities in Python have been around for some time), it's difficult to gauge how many people are using them, and as a result what level of testing has happened in real-life situations.
I'm using it often. I'm also unsure how broken it could be. The user site-packages is just another site-packages directory.
Broken like the prefix problem :) Basically people have Python in a ton of different configurations and it’s hard to figure out if —user will work out of the box in all of them or not. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA