On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:11 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > > Looks like a slippery road if you try to make pip guess > > what the right installation dir should be, e.g. by trying > > to detect that it's running in a virtualenv, the Python3 > > venv, pyrun or a user's local Python installation. > > Right. Refuse the temptation to guess. > The easy and default flow should be the safe one. As Ned Batchelder noted http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201302/war_is_peace.html we're better off having "dangerous_pip_install" not be the easy or default flow. So I guess we're only left with the route of a painful deprecation process. Yuval
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