What is Install-Paths-To in WHEEL file?

[Oscar Benjamin]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 at 22:38, Left Right via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
> > Then your understanding is flat-out wrong. Encouraging participation
> > by everyone DOES mean deleting what is unproductive, offensive, and
> > likely to discourage participation.
>
> I haven't written anything unproductive or offensive. I offered
> constructive criticism with a detailed plan on how to fix the problem.
> The forum owners chose to ban me because they don't like hearing that
> the code they've written is bad. And that's the long and the short of
> it. This has been a pattern in behavior of PyPA members I've
> interacted with so far.

You are conflating several different groups of people. The PyPA are
the people who currently maintain the code for various
libraries/tools. That is very often not the same as the people who
originally wrote the code for the same libraries/tools or for
preceding ones. Neither group is the same as the forum moderators (I
suspect that there is no intersection between the moderators and the
PyPA etc.).

> And whenever they had a chance, they'd use it
> to pretend that the problems I'm talking about don't exist by deleting
> every mention of the problem. That is an example of unproductive and
> offensive behavior because it produces nothing and wastes my time I've
> dedicated to locating, reporting and solving their problem.

Actually you are wasting the time of others by putting across
inaccurate and unhelpful information in a rude way and at the same
time criticising others without really understanding who you are
criticising and for what. Your contribution is unhelpful mostly (but
not exclusively) because of the way that you choose to communicate.

I did not realise earlier what you were referring to but I see now
that I have email notifications with the content of your posts that
were deleted. I am not surprised that they were deleted and that you
were banned because if I was a moderator looking at those then I would
not expect a promising future for your interactions with others in the
forum.

There is some significant irony in you describing the forum as a
"toxic pit" for deleting your posts. I don't always agree with the
moderators and I am not sure that I would have reacted the way that
they did but these threads remind me precisely why moderation
(including deleting posts such as yours) is needed to *prevent* a
forum from turning into a toxic pit.

--
Oscar