pip should trigger a better error message if you don't have write access #1266

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mdamien opened this issue Oct 28, 2013 · 1 comment

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mdamien commented Oct 28, 2013

When pip fail to install because you don't have write access to the install directory, it print a lengthy message without a clear error message.

Example: If you do "pip install django" as a simple user, it will download django and after that print many log lines and a not-comprehensive error.

So, the best solution would be to check whether the user have write access at the start of the script.

I think this is really important, especially for newbies

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qwcode commented Oct 28, 2013

agreed, but dupe to #1048

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