[Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

[R. David Murray]

On Thu, 08 May 2014 09:58:08 -0400, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> I don't think the warning is FUD, and it doesn't mention anything security
> related at all. The exact text of the warning is in the subject of the email
> here:
> 
>     cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable
> 
> Which is true as far as I can tell, it is externally hosted, and it may be
> unreliable[1]. If there is a better wording for that I’m happy to have it and
> will gladly commit it myself to pip.
> 
> [1] In my experience dealing with complaints of pip's users, one of their big
>     ones was that some dependency they use was, typically unknown to them,
>     hosted externally and they found out it was hosted externally because the
>     server it was hosted on went down.

"unreliable" reads as "not safe", ie: insecure.

You probably want something like "and access to it may be unreliable".

--David