On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Robert T. McGibbon <[email protected]> wrote: > Alternatively, perhaps this question could be delegated to the pip > maintainers, for pip to store and maintain this configuration option itself, > perhaps by using its cache (for example, Linux pip already stores some > caches in ~/.cache/pip)?
It could, but (a) it's probably nice if there's a standard, b/c in theory pip-competitors might exist and need access to the same information, (b) whatever the mechanism is it should probably be something that gives python distributors a way to set the default instead of forcing users to configure it manually (and distributors don't in general control pip or ~/.anything), and (c) even if we delegate the decision to the pip maintainers they'll probably just tell us to figure it out and submit a PR for them to decide on ;-). -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
