Jason R. Coombs

I see now the fix in #802 specifically retained the "InvalidVersion" behavior for user-provided environments. Does that mean that this issue needs to be addressed by pipx and every other...

Wouldn't it make sense for research packages like these to provide legitimate contact information or a description of its purpose, and ideally a link to the correct package? That's my...

This issue is even more important now that `pytest-flake8` is [silently broken](https://github.com/tholo/pytest-flake8/issues/97), causing active harm by providing a false sense of security.

I'm unsure what this fixes, but less config is better than more!

I believe this issue could also by addressed by syncing with the latest skeleton.

This concern was addressed in #4430.

Sorry for the long delay. That error message indicates that the `super()` call is somehow not associated with the expected subclass. Thanks for providing the reproducer in the docker image....

The [changelog for v69 is here](https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/history.html#v69-0-0). Sadly, the mention of distutils changes doesn't link to #4103 where those were merged. The distutils changes don't seem to touch the install command...

> when set "SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=local", Then the mpi4py installed will be passed. Note that while this might serve as a bandaid, it won't work on Python 3.12 and won't work when...

In #4130, I spent some time root-causing this issue. It seem that only under certain circumstances, when `setuptools._distutils` is imported and even though `SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib` is configured, the `_distutils_system_mod` gets applied,...