Change message to explain better what pip is doing

[flavioribeiro]

Fix issue #376

[hltbra]

Talking to people in #pip @ freenode, carljm, jezdez and I found that "Retrieving" is a little better message than "Searching for" and "Downloading/Unpacking". So, I would change your request to use this message and add it to CHANGES.

[hltbra]

Hey, sorry. I did more confusion than helping here. The "Retrieving" message is not a good option, since we have a "Downloading .." message while in that step.

Well, have no other idea right now. But "Looking for" seems to be a better message at the moment, since it is analyzing lots of links looking for download links.

Maybe @jezdez or @carljm have a better idea sooner than me.

[bernardobarreto]

+1 for "Looking for".

would be nice to merge this as quickly as possible, this confuse people:
you're reading "Downloading/unpacking", and after you see a download in proccess... doesn't make sense..

[carljm]

I'm afraid I don't understand what is confusing or misleading about the current message. It seems perfectly intuitive to me that pip would tell you "I'm downloading/unpacking X" and then after that (indented) give you more details about the process of doing so. I don't see any implication that the line "Downloading/unpacking X" means it has already finished doing so. I don't see any significant advantage to "Looking for X" - in fact, that seems misleading to me as pip is doing a lot more than just looking for something.

Closing this pull request in any case, as the original author doesn't seem to have interest in updating it, and I don't think "Searching for" is a good message.

[bernardobarreto]

@carljm sorry, I misunderstood. I didn't see the indentation, yes makes sense as you said "Downloading/unpacking" and then it shows more detail (indented), the indentation is the key point.

nevertheless, I still think "Downloading/unpacking" isn't good enough, pip is doing more then just looking for some package and it is also doing more than just downloading and unpacking.

I think the message should be Installing, because it makes the download, the unpack and it also installs the package.

[TC01]

This is a bit old.. but for what it's worth- I think Downloading\Unpacking is fine if the package exists. I agree that it doesn't imply it's finished doing this, just that it's in the process of doing so.

The problem is when the package does not exist. Currently, the output tells you that pip is downloading and unpacking a package- then tells you that it has failed to find anything to download. This is confusing, because I will often type "pip install somepkg", see the "Downloading/unpacking somepkg" message and think that pip has found something.. only to see later that it hasn't.

I'd suggest first a no-indentation message "Searching for somepkg"; then another no-indentation message saying "Installing somepkg" (or Downloading/Unpacking if this is preferred) that pops up only if pip actually found a package. And then that second message can be followed by all the existing indented output for downloading, unpacking, and installing.