Paul Moore

> What about powershell? I've not used it myself, but `help New-Event` shows: > The New-Event cmdlet creates a new custom event. > > You can use custom events to...

I'm -0.5. It's extra clutter that's not been flagged as an issue until now, so I assume the need is rare. I'm not convinced that Python 2 nearing EOL makes...

> Oh. Aren't these in the Scripts/ directory? No, all that's in `Scripts` are entry point wrappers for installed libraries (pip, easy_install and wheel in a base install). Looking a...

> I'm not sure what this phrase puts in my mouth Sorry for misrepresenting your comments and thanks for the clarification! (It looks like I did correctly understand what you...

> Other than 2to3, it's only pydoc, idle and pyvenv I'd be curious to know who chose that list. Is it specifically pyvenv? Ubuntu (bash on Windows, and a docker...

I can't reproduce this. My versions of pip, setuptools and wheel are the same, this is in a fresh Python 3.8.0 venv. I am using Windows 10, but I'm not...

I just noticed: ``` FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\pyxxx\\python38.zip\\site.py' ``` It looks like you have the stdlib in a zip file. That's unusual - are you...

@gaborbernat I was specifically talking about [the windows embeddable package](https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#the-embeddable-package), which is available as a zipfile that can be unzipped anywhere. The problem is that while it appears to work...

The usual process is that you create a separate package under your own name, then propose it for PyPA inclusion on Discourse, and then it gets moved to the PyPA...

Honestly, I don't know - the process in PEP 609 was decided by the PyPA with @di as the PEP author (the discussion was [here](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-609-pypa-governance/2619)). I don't think I have...