`search` command uses --index, while `install` uses --index-url

[hltbra]

It is confusing and got it wrong right now, I think it would be nice for options that behaves equally to be the same name.

PS.: A rename would break backwards compatibility, and I don't know how many people use this feature.

[xavfernandez]

An issue is that --index-url points to https://pypi.python.org/simple/ while --index points to https://pypi.python.org/pypi/.

Not sure how to define in the config files different values for --index-url depending on the command (install vs search).

[dragon788]

This is causing us a lot of headaches because our configuration management tool requires an index url, but it doesn't expose whether it is using it for search or for install (spoiler: it does BOTH) and so having to figure out why the calls are failing simply because of the presence or absence of /simple is NOT an exercise that should be required by the user of pip.

Pip should accept one format of index-url globally and automatically append /simple if that is required for installation, or better yet if it was passed --index-url and not --index if it sees /simple at the end of the URL it REMOVES the extra /simple automatically when performing a search. Having the intelligence in pip would allow you to make it backwards compatible with the old options, but accepting a single style for BOTH calls as well as supporting the config file's index URL for searching, this would be HUGE.

[lvlie]

hi @dragon788, of course you are right. However, is it possible to omit both options from the pip command and put them in /etc/pip.conf instead? Then both search and install should work without index-url and/or index.

[dstufft]

This is essentially a duplicate of #395 since that is the reason why we have different names for these configurations.