Paul Moore

> It should not be super complicated to do, this is a rough example Yeah, technically you should convert `Metadata-Version` to a `Version` and do a proper version comparison. Depends...

One specific issue I have is that it's using pip to download packages. There's a lot of work going on in the packaging ecosystem to move away from having a...

@jonast I apologise if my comments left you feeling frustrated. Let me make it clear, these are just my views, and in particular I'm not in charge of the `pep517`...

> the whole idea behind this request of this ticket / Package and Environment Introspection Library for me would be pretty much to have basics somewhere of what one might...

As @takluyver said on one of the other threads this whole discussion has spawned, the problem is that projects may generate different metadata depending on things like build options, or...

Agreed - I'm not trying to claim that anything less than perfection is useless. Just that being clear what's in scope and what is out of scope (by means of...

> The only way to have a blessed library without falling into the trap is to refactor the logic out of pip, but unfortunately that is a much more involved...

I'm not sure how best to fix this, logging it as an issue so it doesn't get forgotten. I'm not sure if I'll have time to fix it myself, I...

It's set globally. Don't worry too much about it - if it's only happening for me, I'll try to work out what's odd with my config first. As I said,...

Sorry I missed the previous question, no it's not been happening for a while, so agreed, it can be closed.