On 02/04/2013 07:42 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > I think the biggest problem with this idea is going to be backwards > compatibility. It's a good idea but it might need to be done as > a "if we don't have permissions to write to the site-packages directory > fail with a good error message and recommend user-packages or > virtualenv.
Hmm, I don't see any backwards-compatibility problem with simply going ahead and switching to user-site-packages if system site-packages aren't writable. It's not like that would break any workflow that currently works, presuming pip actually tests for ability to write to system site-packages, rather than testing for userid 0 or some such (which seems potentially cross-platform problematic anyway). Carl _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
