On May 8, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 08 May 2014 10:21:34 -0400 > "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: >>> >>> "unreliable" reads as "not safe", ie: insecure. >>> >>> You probably want something like "and access to it may be unreliable". >> >> Actually, thinking about this some more, *most* end-users aren't going >> to care that there's another point of failure here, they only care if it >> works or not when they try to install it. So something like >> "cdecimal is not hosted on pypi; download may fail if external server >> is unavailable" might be clearer. >> >> And once you're at that point, as a user I'm going to grumble, "Well, why >> the heck didn't you just try?", as I figure out how to re-execute the >> command so that it does try. > > Agreed. That warning looks rather pointless and only aimed at trying to > enforce the pip developers' ideological preferences. > > Regards > > Antoine. > The pip developers didn’t make this decision. It was discussed on distutils-sig hammered out in a PEP, and then accepted. We took part in that discussion, but ultimately we implemented PEP438. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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