Donald Stufft

I think the only real alternative is Daniel's suggestion. I think the current situation sucks and I can't really think of a way to save the attempt to manage pip...

@erikrose It does sort of shift the problem to `python`, but typically the confusion that I've seen arise stems from when `python` and `pip` disagree. Like you might have `/usr/bin/python`...

@mattrobenolt Basically, because it's super confusing if you're doing something like running `myvenv/bin/pip` without activating the virtual environment first or if you have a copy of Python installed to a...

You can drop a `_manylinux.py` file in `site-packages` or in the standard library or wherever that will make it importable with contents like: ``` python manylinux1_compatible = False ``` Does...

It doesn't replace it. It just adds another manylinux which is preferred over the generic linux. See: ``` >>> from pip.pep425tags import get_supported >>> for supported in get_supported(): >>> for...

I'm not actually sure what a deprecation period would look like for something like this. We don't have a good way to message this I think, if we just message...

Historically pip errored out on anything that wasn't `text/html` FWIW, and the issue in question seems to not be using any sort of proxy or caching thing, but hitting PyPI...

It's possible that some single cache node in Fastly got a bad version cached for awhile

I've long wished we had a way to get some metrics on pip usage, to try and suss out these kinds of questions. As it is right now, we really...

There is not currently a way to do this, I'll go ahead and mark this as a feature request.