Danny McClanahan

Ok, I didn't think it would be possible, but @jsirois (who is off climbing now) was absolutely right to suggest investigating the reuse of `--layout packed` cache entries. This solution:...

One thing it would be very helpful to get input on: there are two changes in behavior in the current diff (both of which are subjective, not necessary to achieve...

> When I run zipinfo my.pex today, the .bootstrap/, etc scroll up and away and I see my user code at the bottom in the console. Oops! I was so...

Oops! Didn't realize that *was* the current behavior! However, regarding the following: > Zips are tail oriented; so having main.py in the tail is desirable. Would it be useful to...

Please see https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex/pull/2175#issuecomment-1665770648, where you'll find I had a simple misunderstanding. I understand you are not at liberty to review in depth right now.

> That said, I think some PR later should probably make the tail order exactly: On it! #2209

@jsirois you already approved this, but I assumed you'd want to review again after I introduced the `--cache-dists` option to gate the use of the packed wheel cache (`--cache-dists` is...

I would love any comments from anyone at all about how they currently manage the pex cache (or don't)!

A user request for cache clearing from pip: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12176.

> One thing that struck me is most folks are probably ignorant of pip `--use-{feature,deprecated}` which Pex has used to provide a toggle between the `--resolver-version pip-{legacy,2020}-resolver` for many years...