On Thu, 08 May 2014 09:58:08 -0400, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > I don't think the warning is FUD, and it doesn't mention anything security > related at all. The exact text of the warning is in the subject of the email > here: > > cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable > > Which is true as far as I can tell, it is externally hosted, and it may be > unreliable[1]. If there is a better wording for that Iâm happy to have it > and > will gladly commit it myself to pip. > > [1] In my experience dealing with complaints of pip's users, one of their big > ones was that some dependency they use was, typically unknown to them, > hosted externally and they found out it was hosted externally because the > server it was hosted on went down.
"unreliable" reads as "not safe", ie: insecure. You probably want something like "and access to it may be unreliable". --David
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