bxparks/bigquery-schema-generator

Sudo pip install is discouraged

alexwennerberg opened this issue · 1 comments

Hey -- I love this tool. However, the documentation recommends using sudo to install pip packages, which is discouraged. See this stackoverflow thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21055859/what-are-the-risks-of-running-sudo-pip

I would recommend altering the instructions to suggest pip3 install --user, which allows you to get the command line script outside a virtual environment without requiring you to install as root.

Thanks!

That's a good point. Updated the README.md.
Python packaging is such a mess, and my Python environment so horribly messed up, I think installing as root is the only thing that works for me right now. Sigh