Paul Moore

@carlkl I understand what the problem is, and I understand what we'd need to do to fix it (revert to an older distlib, or wait for a distlib fix). What...

* #10444 is about GUI script wrappers, isn't it? * A brief skim of the nsist issue also seems to be about GUI executables. * I don't get anything failing...

> Simply going back to an older distlib would open another can of worms again. So what we're saying is that there's no-one actually requesting a bugfix release that reverts...

IMO, this isn't worth worrying about. It should be rare (these days, entry points are recommended over scripts anyway) and it doesn't cause any real problem, just clutter. Having said...

To try to clarify the situation, let me ask a question. You say "the user asked for the resolve to be for a foreign interpreter". How did the user do...

I've rarely used `pip search`, and never really got useful data from it. But then again, I've never got much use out of PyPI's search facilities anyway. I'd like to...

Two, in my view. Both minor. 1. It signals our intent to have a search command, not simply to dump it. (Assuming that *is* our intent...) 2. If there are...

One (maybe minor) point. If we do have the message point to a survey, presumably we'd need to keep that survey available, or at least replace it with a "this...

I'm not sure I understand the difference between "trustworthy" and "useful" in the 2 questions about pip search results. This should either be made clearer, or we should just have...

> current user behaviour is currently download a piece of software (possibly) from the Internet - sight unseen - based on search results from a search in pip. Really? I'm...