On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > If you invoke 'pip[X.Y]' and it matches 'python -m pip' in your current > virtualenv, don't say anything; similarly if you invoke 'python -m pip' and > 'which pip' matches. But if there's a mismatch, pip can print information > in both cases. This would go a long way to alleviating the confusion that > occurs when users back themselves into one of these corners, and would alert > users to potential issues before they become a problem; right now you have > to be a dogged investigative journalist to figure out why pip is doing the > wrong thing in some cases.
Here's a sketch of how something like this might look: https://gist.github.com/njsmith/c051a8298cc641bcfef4 -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
