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

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Thu Sep 25 17:43:59 CEST 2014

On Sep 25, 2014, at 4:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:34:31 +0100 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. I'm using it often. I'm also unsure how broken it could be. The user site-packages is just another site-packages directory.

Broken like the prefix problem :)

Basically people have Python in a ton of different configurations and it’s hard to figure out if —user will work out of the box in all of them or not.

Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA

-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140925/d4f98d6b/attachment.html>

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list