Paul Moore

Thanks. I'm afraid I won't do much (if anything) more on this topic. Because of the performance issue I mentioned above, I have no interest in, or use for, the...

Can you clarify what you mean by "PEP 508 editables"? PEP 508 doesn't refer to editabe installs anywhere (and the [docs for `-e`](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/cli/pip_install/#cmdoption-e) state that it takes a path or...

Ah, OK. I'm not sure I agree with that comment, as I don't actually think that (for example) `pip install -e requests>=2.0` makes any sense[^1]. But if we do, backward...

> Does pip intend to support it? As of right now, no-one has provided a PR. There's #9471, but that got closed unmerged. And that was *solely* for `name@vcs_url` -...

> On the other hand, it's another non standard syntax to learn for users, so I'd go for the PEP 508 syntax. While I don't have a strong opinion here,...

Does it? That's not documented anywhere, as far as I can see. The docs say: > Install a project in editable mode (i.e. setuptools “develop mode”) from a local project...

Note that none of that is documented (at best, there's some examples that suggest what the expected behaviour is). If we want *any* sort of consistency between pip and uv,...

I don't personally have one, it's just something that came up when I was investigating https://discuss.python.org/t/packaging-binaries-into-the-venv-bin-folder-do-any-build-backends-support-this/103965/9

In general terms, I'm very much in favour of this. But I think the biggest problem is the long tail of non-standard sdists. And it's not just on PyPI -...

> Removing support for xz-compressed tarballs (and possibly bz2-compressed ones) would break workflows for people using packages from linux distributions or who need distro+version specific packages. If these types of...