Paul Moore

There's nothing special in pip to respect `TMPDIR`. We simply use the stdlib functions, which, for what it's worth, document their behaviour [here](https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/tempfile.html#tempfile.gettempdir). I'm -1 on us duplicating the stdlib...

I'm sorry, but why is a user who's not familiar with Python's stdlib using a Python development tool like pip? I don't think the pip developers have a responsibility to...

> FYI, it is my own personal experience that many non-developers use pip to install Python applications. pipx would be a better tool for them, in that case. Although I...

The pandocfilters 1.4.1 sdist seems to be broken:  Note that the target of `README.rst` is `pandocfilters-1.4.1/README`, which does not exist as the error message says. The same is true...

Ah. @henryiii pointed out [here](https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12781#issuecomment-2183791216) that we have a filter with pip-specific behaviour. I suspect the issue is that our filter is checking for symlinks pointing out of the tarfile,...

What's the motivation for making this a PR to pip, as opposed to having it in a branch in your own fork of pip? It's nowhere near ready for inclusion...

Personally, I think it's missing too much context - most of the wheel-next work is going on in dedicated channels, which means that most people aren't going to know any...

Agreed, this sounds better. In fact, I'd like to go even further and completely isolate environment discovery - not just marker values, but sysconfig locations, and anything *else* that we...

I wasn't suggesting that paths get exposed directly as user options. Simply that internally, we collect everything that is introspected from the interpreter in one place. Then, flags for things...

If we built the wheel previously, and the source is identical, we'll re-use the cached wheel rather than spending the time doing a build which will give the same result....