Donald Stufft

``packaging`` should probably not depend on ``installer``? I suspect ``wheel`` also shouldn't depend on ``installer``?

It seems like it should be possible to design a sans I/O approach here? Maybe not with the zipfile module itself, but that's just a limitation of that module then....

I think it's a fine API? Like yea you're kinda doing it weird for shutil, but it also means you can do: ```python from functools import partial from shutil import...

I assume the inputs for creating a wheel are the files to include + the relevant metadata files, sans the wheel specific ones like `WHEEL` and `RECORD`? ```python import contextlib...

> I'd have been perfectly happy with either True or None here - but False just seems wrong to me. Can one of the maintainers explain the logic here? ``SpecifierSet.prereleases``...

Yea, in hindsight the logic probably should have been either simplified or pushed to the edges (e.g. in pip/poetry/etc), and left the core library and spec alone to implement the...

Brett and Pradyun's opinions should weigh much higher than mine, since they've been the primary maintainers for awhile now. Personally I think it's something we should do, but I have...

PyPI would want strict validation FWIW --- The way I'd implement this is that you have a variety of functions that read a file and turn it into a "standard"...

I think that even for cases like the hypothetical ``parse_json`` function, there's still value in having that function over just ``json.loads``, even if ultimately, it's a thin wrapper over ``json.loads``....

> That's what I was thinking for a time yesterday, and that's what I'm considering in the email header case. I don't want to make it universal, though, as other...