> On Feb 17, 2016, at 7:12 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > >> On Feb 17, 2016, at 7:08 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> wrote: >> >> Saying it's a good idea and we should move towards it is fine and I agree, >> but that isn't grounds to remove the ability to do things the current way. >> So you can warn people off from global installs but until there is at least >> some community awareness of this other way to do things we can't remove >> support entirely. It's going to be a very slow deprecation process. >> >> --Noah > > Sure. We are also in agreement here, basically: in saying that pip should > "error", I was describing an ideal state that would take years of education > to get to (and I'm not sure that Donald even agrees we should go that way > ;-)). But we can't even begin to move in that direction a little unless the > better alternative is clearly explained and out in the zeitgeist for some > time first.
Okay, then :+1: but I would be wary of using the phrasing "should just exit immediately with an error" in such a situation. "should" isn't wrong per se, but you don't actually want it to do that nooooow ;-) --Noah
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