Paul Moore

That sounds like a good call.

While your point about documentation is fair (there is *some* documentation, under the command options for `pip install`) for this use case I think you should be using `--prefix`. Documentation...

A very quick initial view - I don't think I'd like pip to get too low-level with this. We'd have to find a way of testing it, and our Windows...

> What about running a test suite? Pip currently sets up a RAM Disk for running is Windows tests because file system performance is so poor, but it's janky and...

> Hopefully CI systems will just set it up by default. Github actions? I don't know what the `$(Build)` drive is. We don't use it in our `ci.yml`. And our...

> Add an opt in flag that will automatically put the cache dir onto a dev drive if one is available One final comment and then I'll shut up. There...

This doesn't seem to be following our normal transition policy. In particular, [our documentation](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/development/release-process/#feature-flags) notes that legacy features enabled by a `--use-legacy` flag "should always include a warning that indicates...

I'm not particularly familiar with the use cases involved here, so I'm not the best person to comment - hopefully @uranusjr can help out. One question I do have -...

As there has been no further comments on this, I'm moving it to the 23.2 milestone.

There's been nothing further on this, and 23.2 is probably under a month away. @sethmlarson do you have any thoughts on how to proceed, or should we consider moving this...