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. There's probably no way to improve that much other than by making --user the default and waiting for reports of any issues, but feedback like Mike's adds a certain level of confidence that there are no significant problems. Paul