Paul Moore

Grr, it's file timestamps.

Sigh, something else as well. I'll have to look at this later. But I will note that I don't think that checking that the files are binary-identical is a particularly...

> Finally, I’ll remind you that all these checks and mechanisms were originally designed for the existing text files and making sure those are kept up to date (those are...

OK, that's fixed the reproducibility issue. Sorry about the complaints re the checks. I'm still not sure I follow the logic where we check in the generate script and the...

As there have been no further comments, and I don't want to leave this until the next pip release is looming, I'd like to merge this as it stands and...

Unfortunately, I just found some issues in manual testing. I could have sworn I tested with 3.9/3.8, but maybe not (and what's more, the pip zipapp tests are only for...

As an alternative, `get-pip.py` could check the Python version, and if it's not a supported version, print a message directing the user to download the appropriate `https://bootstrap.pypa.io/X.Y/get-pip.py` script and use...

But the suggestion was "redirect to the version that works for whichever version if Python is requesting it" and if you're requesting it with curl, the server has no way...

> Maybe if we pip installed the package, then replaced pieces with symlinks I'm thinking about how we might add support for symlinks to wheels. It's an often-requested feature for...

One issue I just encountered - if you create a new project with `flit init`, it's not initially under VCS. At this point, `flit build` still works - presumably following...