On 10 Feb 2015 22:40, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > tl;dr - Having a shared per-user scripts directory on Windows > (%APPDATA%/Python/Scripts) causes a number of potential issues when > users install the same package in multiple Python versions. I'd like > to suggest that this be changed to a versioned directory > (%APPDATA%/PythonXY/Scripts) to match all other Python directories on > Windows. > > This issue originally started as a discussion on the pip tracker > around making --user the default for pip. See > https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1668 for details.
For the reasons Paul gives, I'm personally +1 on making the change. I was actually surprised it didn't already work that way, given that almost everything else on Windows is version specific. Cheers, Nick.
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