On 25 September 2014 18:13, Steve Dower <steve.do...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Again, this isn't trivial to get right. The design for the elevation model > seems to have focused mainly on GUI rather than console, probably assuming > that people who need to elevate from the console will elevate the shell > itself (this is a guess - I have no insight into how the Windows team > designed this), so there are limitations we have to work within.
Yeah, I think my view is that we don't really want to have to support code that complex, so let's keep it simple. To use pip to install into a protected location, pip must be run from an elevated shell. Given that doing so is inconvenient (specifically, even more inconvenient than sudo on Unix) let's ensure that for the normal case the user doesn't need to do that. Paul _______________________________________________ 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
