[Distutils] Need for respect (was: PEP 438, pip and --allow-external)

[Stefan Krah]

Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. There will be a single per-package opt-in flag, that is needed for
> any package not hosted on PyPI (effectively merging --allow-external
> and --allow-unverifiable)

Could this flag be called "--skip-verify"?  If I understand correctly,
it will also suppress verification for packages that are verifiable in
principle.


> 2. There will be an "allow any safe external package" flag
> (--allow-all-external).

Perhaps "--verify-external"?  The existing flag is very confusing
to me, since it seems to describe the set of all external packages.


Stefan Krah