[Python-Dev] 3.5 release schedule PEP (original) (raw)

INADA Naoki songofacandy at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 09:22:23 CEST 2014

FYI, homebrew's Python uses prefix option, so I can't use --user. Is it a bug?

$ /usr/local/bin/pip -V pip 1.5.6 from /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.6-py2.7.egg (python 2.7)

$ /usr/local/bin/pip install --user tornado ... error: can't combine user with prefix, exec_prefix/home, or install_(plat)base

$ cat /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/distutils.cfg [global] verbose=1 [install] force=1 prefix=/usr/local

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

On 25 September 2014 02:08, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Indeed. Moving towards having --user as the norm is definitely something we want to look at for pip. One of the biggest concerns is how well-exercised the whole user site directory area is in practice.

What do you mean by well-exercised? Basically, although --user is available in pip (and the underlying facilities in Python have been around for some time), it's difficult to gauge how many people are using them, and as a result what level of testing has happened in real-life situations. There's probably no way to improve that much other than by making --user the default and waiting for reports of any issues, but feedback like Mike's adds a certain level of confidence that there are no significant problems. Paul

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