On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 April 2015 at 22:02, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > Personally, I'm not a fan of auto-installing, so I'd hope for > something more like pip would fail to install if a required extension > were missing. The user would then install the extension and redo the > install. But that may be a minority opinion - it's a bit like > setup_requires in principle, and people seem to prefer that to be > auto-installed. > > (lurker surfaces) I'm with Paul on this one. It seems to me that auto-installing the extension would destroy most of the advantages of distributing the extensions separately. I _might_ not hate it if pip prompted the user and _then_ installed, but then again, I might. (lurker sinks back into the depths) -- Kevin Horn
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