What is Install-Paths-To in WHEEL file?

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> others do not and so your notion of what is "accepted"
> is not universally shared.

Why should I or anyone else care about what "others" think?  The
important question is whether what I do is right. And the answer is
"yes". That's why there are rules in the first place instead of
polling.

> if you want to influence anything

Usually, when I interact with representatives of Python community I
have two goals:

1. Typically, I need to show to someone who's paying my salary why
something produced by this community doesn't work. I.e. say, I need to
convince a project manager on a project I'm helping maintain that
deploying using "pip install" is a bad idea. I write an explanation
which I share with the PM and the PyPA people in the bug tracker.
They predictably block me out of fear or frustration.  This gives me a
proof that the thing doesn't work (well), and I'm allowed to do it the
right way. Just like in your previous remark: majority could be a good
initial heuristic, but proof is still a lot better.

2. At this point, I have no hope of convincing the prominent members
of Python community how awful a lot of their decisions are.  There are
plenty of socially constructed obstacles on this way.  The reason I do
this is posterity.  There are plenty of people who aren't influenced
by the internal developments of Python community (outside of it) and
they can see much of its development for what it is: commenting on
this development honestly will help them make an informed choice.
It's also important that those who will come after us will learn about
this contradiction.  Too many bad projects with bad design outlived
their good counterparts due to popularity caused by chance.  And today
those better design and ideas are as good as lost.  For example, Unix
outlived and "overpowered" plenty of better operating systems of its
time. But most programmers today would have no idea what those systems
were and how they were different.  Similarly, x86 ISA.  And plenty
more.

Python changed from its early days of trying to be funny and generally
welcoming of many contradicting ideas and opinions into a Lord of the
Flies community that no longer tolerates differences of opinion.  It's
lost the spirit of "playful cleverness" (as RMS would put it), and
became a "don't think, do as I say" community. I want to make sure
those who come to learn about Python will not miss this aspect of its
history.