Daniele Nicolodi

> That way, you'd have `` for version compares and `=$`and `!=$` for fnmatch compares? Perl uses `=~` and `!~` for positive and negative regular expression matches, thus maybe the...

> There are SMBIOS fields that are textual strings, and SMBIOS fields that can conceptually be considered version numbers. Just brainstorming: what about then having different options for different type...

> Hmm, maybe --strip isn't the right name for this, what about --no-newlines or --no-line-break? The `--strip` option name is confusing enough that this is not what the options does....

Would "one line per message" mean that the newlines are escaped or removed, or that log message lines after the first are not shown?

I think the option name could still be improved. Using `--truncate` leaves still unclear where the truncation is going to take place. The most general solution would be to have...

What I am trying to say is that the option name as spelled now is not a nice user interface as the user is left wondering where the truncation will...

> Meson needs the `--no-build-isolation` flag for editable installs. This is not strictly true. It is required only when `ninja` is not provided by the system or the package being...

> The warning must be visible without the `-v` flag to `pip` though, which may be an issue AFAIK, this is not something we can control. I don't think emitting...

The only option that remains is to return an error if `ninja` is not present when building an editable wheel. If `ninja` is not present the resulting wheel is unusable...

This is the kind of error that is not possible to detect at wheel build time. The package is failing to compile and the exception is telling you just that:...