Paul Moore

I'm inclined to treat adding the normalisation rules into PEP 508 as a clarification. My reasoning is that PEP 508 clearly states that project names and extras have the same...

The user is saying that they tried to access the link directly, and got an error saying they had been blocked. That *is* a connectivity issue. The hash error may...

I'm also somewhat concerned about the precedent this sets. I'm sure there are plenty of other places where pip's commands don't quite match those of other package managers. Should we...

See [here](https://discuss.python.org/t/python-metadata-format-specification-and-implementation/7550) for a discussion on the matter. Your proposal sounds reasonable, but you should co-ordinate with the people in that discussion. As this is a change that *would* affect...

pylance. And yes, I do and I say yes to the prompt.

My instinct is that "installing a lock file" has to mean "making the environment look like what the file specifies". Otherwise there are too many questions around what happens in...

The PEP positions the lock file as very much an explicit specification of "this is what you install to create the environment for this app". Reproducibility is a key goal....

The data *is* temporary files (it's the unpacked source of `vllm-0.5.1.tar.gz` which appears to need a lot of space to build). Pip respects the standard `$TEMP`/`$TMPDIR` directories, which as far...

> I mean, I literally gave you the definitions For the filesystem locations, yes. I'm not disputing that. But why is `$TEMP` set to `/tmp` if that location is only...

I’ll repeat my comment from above - there is nothing actionable for pip here (except possibly an improved error message or documentation, as noted by @pradyunsg). We aren’t going to...