Paul Moore

Also, why is it necessary to implement this in pip when a 1-liner using curl and jq like you show gives the results so easily? (For people without curl or...

I guess that begs the question of whether pip is a "package manager". I've always thought of it as an "installer" rather than a broader tool. But I can see...

I'm somewhat worried about the extra size this would add to the pip wheel. It's an extra 100k, which is a 7% size increase. For something downloaded as often as...

I agree. My first thought here was “`--use-feature` doesn’t work in requirements files anyway”, and I was surprised to find that it’s documented to work there. Does anyone know why...

I'll need to remind myself of the history here - the checks you're removing were deliberately included, because from what I recall I had strong reservations about the actual meaning...

I think you can add a pre-built tarfile to `tests/data/packages` and reference that via one of our test fixtures (`data`). Something like ``` def test_something(script: PipTestEnvironment, data: TestData): result =...

They look unrelated to this change, I've just hit "rerun" in case they are intermittent failures.

Looks like there's still a CI failure to fix, and the branch needs to be brought up to date with main.

I'm not aware of this hitting any real world users, so I consider this a theoretical problem until it's demonstrated otherwise - at which point, my initial inclination would be...

> I'm pretty sure I'm going to hit this as a real-world user. To be clear here, the users of `editables` are *build backend developers*. I'm not clear from your...