Paul Moore

The intention was to make them available, but the automation and CI infrastructure around the `get-pip` project made that hard to do. I deferred doing this, but never got back...

An initial version of this is at https://github.com/pypa/get-pip/pull/191

Completed via https://github.com/pypa/get-pip/pull/191

> PyPI does not plan to publish .metadata files for sdists. That's a shame. Do you have a reference for this?

What is necessary is to have an option structure that is supported by our command line parser. The proposed structure needs to interleave non-option arguments and options, which optparse doesn't...

> I don't think it is standard Python behaviour - i think a local directory needs to have a `__init__.py` file in order to be considered for import. No, see...

> Basically, if the Python files are installed to a read-only directory, then importing those files will be permanently slower as the .pyc files will never be cached. This is...

Yes, but I don't think I agree with that motivation[^1] - the discussion was closed saying we'd reached consensus, but IMO that was a bit of an overstatement. Furthermore, whereas...

My immediate answer would be "no, obviously not". What makes you think it might do? (I'm not super familiar with extras, so I could well have missed something, but I...

I definitely don't consider this to be a "critical bug", considering how long it's been around before anyone mentioned it. If there were any movement, it would be in the...