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

[Donald Stufft]

On May 8, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 08 May 2014 10:21:34 -0400
> "R. David Murray" <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> "unreliable" reads as "not safe", ie: insecure.
>>> 
>>> You probably want something like "and access to it may be unreliable".
>> 
>> Actually, thinking about this some more, *most* end-users aren't going
>> to care that there's another point of failure here, they only care if it
>> works or not when they try to install it.  So something like
>> "cdecimal is not hosted on pypi; download may fail if external server
>> is unavailable" might be clearer.
>> 
>> And once you're at that point, as a user I'm going to grumble, "Well, why
>> the heck didn't you just try?", as I figure out how to re-execute the
>> command so that it does try.
> 
> Agreed. That warning looks rather pointless and only aimed at trying to
> enforce the pip developers' ideological preferences.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Antoine.
> 

The pip developers didn’t make this decision. It was discussed on distutils-sig
hammered out in a PEP, and then accepted. We took part in that discussion,
but ultimately we implemented PEP438.

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