[Catalog-sig] Use user-specific site-packages by default?

[Lennart Regebro]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you break peoples ability to install packages right away they'll refuse
> to upgrade.

Good point. We want the problems to be fixed, not avoided.

One thing just struck me: We have the maintainer emails of mots
packages (although they might be outdated). We can email all of them
saying that they need to upload the packages to PyPI and why.

> who don't care and jsut want to install their packages is not going to make
> it any more of a smoother transition.

Here smoothness is of secondary importance to speed, though.

//Lennart