consolidate --log and --log-file #915
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C: logging
Information Logging
kind: backwards incompatible
Would be backward incompatible
type: enhancement
Improvements to functionality
from the 0.7 changelog
"pip now logs to a central location by default (instead of creating pip-log.txt all over the place) and constantly overwrites the file in question. On Unix and Mac OS X this is '$HOME/.pip/pip.log' and on Windows it’s '%HOME%\pip\pip.log'. You are still able to override this location with the $PIP_LOG_FILE environment variable. For a complete (appended) logfile use the separate '--log' command line option"
my biggest problem with this, is that "--log" and "--log-file" mean the same thing (by name) to humans, so it's immediately confusing. it's true that "--log-file" is hidden in the help, but people end up finding it (in order to control it).
Here's the requirements for logging as I see it:
related issue: #350
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