On Thu, 08 May 2014 10:21:34 -0400 "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > > > > "unreliable" reads as "not safe", ie: insecure. > > > > You probably want something like "and access to it may be unreliable". > > Actually, thinking about this some more, *most* end-users aren't going > to care that there's another point of failure here, they only care if it > works or not when they try to install it. So something like > "cdecimal is not hosted on pypi; download may fail if external server > is unavailable" might be clearer. > > And once you're at that point, as a user I'm going to grumble, "Well, why > the heck didn't you just try?", as I figure out how to re-execute the > command so that it does try.
Agreed. That warning looks rather pointless and only aimed at trying to enforce the pip developers' ideological preferences. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
