[Distutils] distlib and wheel metadata

[Donald Stufft]

> On Feb 23, 2017, at 4:51 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony at xtfx.me> wrote:
> 
> The distlib solver would bind up from impossible constraints, yet every time, pip found a way to "power through" the exact same configuration despite blatantly incompatible metadata at times. I never looked into it further on pip's side (though probably someone here can confirm/deny this) but I suspect poor metadata is more widespread than pip makes visible.


<1% of projects or files using == suggests to me that there is very few people using == incorrectly.

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Donald Stufft



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