[Distutils] pip feedback to user...

[Marcus Smith]

I agree with you Chris.  It think it's confusing too.
There is an existing issue for this. https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/376
Marcus


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>wrote:

> Is this the right place to discuss UX issues for pip? If not, point to the
> right place, if so, read on:
>
> I think pip's usability could be much improved with a little tweaking to
> the messages it prints to the console when it does its thing. For instance,
> when I do a:
>
> pip install some_package
>
> I get the message:
>
> Downloading/unpacking some_package
>
> When in fact, pip is not (yet) doing that -- what it is doing is looking
> for the package on pypi (or ???) Which is fine if the package is found, but
> if it's not, you then get some confusing messages, like:
>
> Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement some-package
> Cleaning up...
>
> not to bad -- it does say it wasn't found, but it seems it could be a bit
> odd to a new user -- "but I thought it was being downloaded?"
>
> I was just trying to upgrade a packe that I was told could now be pip
> installed:
>
> $ pip install --upgrade tracpy
> Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement tracpy in
> /Users/chris.barker/PythonStuff/TracPy/tracpy
> Downloading/unpacking tracpy
> Cleaning up...
> No distributions at all found for tracpy in
> /Users/chris.barker/PythonStuff/TracPy/tracpy
> Storing complete log in /Users/chris.barker/.pip/pip.log
>
> It turns out that they have not (yet?) registered it with pypi (and I have
> a n older copy in /Users/chris.barker/PythonStuff/TracPy/tracpy). But it
> does seem weird and confusing that it first says it can't find any
> downloads, then tells me its downloading, then cleaning up, then says it
> couldn't find anything...
>
>
> Anyway, small stuff, but these little things make a difference.
>
> -Chris
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