Éric Araujo added the comment:
With the raise of virtualenv and its inclusion in CPython for 3.3, this is even
less a concern, even for UNIX. I’m withdrawing the idea and will continue to
advertise --user and warn against sudo in documentation and other venues.
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assignee: tarek ->
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
In my Winxp machine, I can add and delete directories in
python32/Lib/site-packages (all-users installation) from my user account. That
is what I expect and want the default to be, not the Terry/whatever that I have
never used (or the admin/whatever if I happ
New submission from Éric Araujo :
Now that we can break compat in distutils2/packaging, we can change the default
install dir to use PEP 370 user site-packages. For users without root,
copy-pasting “pysetup run install_dist” from the docs would Just Work™. This
would also avoid the dreadful
