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

[Donald Stufft]

On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> pip will need to learn to prefer non-final releases.
> 
> 

PEP426 states this as part of it's requirements so I expect all package
tools to move that way, and, at the risk of promising time I don't have,
if someone else doesn't make pip do this soon It's on my list of things
to implement and then harp on until it happens :) 
> 
> I was pressed to put buildout alpha and beta releases on a separate site
> because of the concern that they'd be installed inadvertently by pip.
> 
> (I was then dissed by crate.io (http://crate.io) for having external downloads. Grrrr.)
> 
> I'd be happy to discourage use of external sites, as they tend to be a pain.
> 
> Jim
> 
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