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3.1 seems reasonable and early enough. It would probably help the code that we require Py3.6 or even newer by then.

Sorry for letting this get stale. It has a lot of conflicts now. Do you think it can be revived?

> `GET_EMPTY_CONTAINER(tuple/bytes/str)` That's a very good idea. It seems enough to use `EMPTY(bytes)`. Worth a separate PR, I think. I'll give it a try.

> EMPTY(bytes) See https://github.com/cython/cython/pull/6351

So, if I understand this correctly, setuptools is trying to install Cython as a `setup_requires` dependency here. Apparently, it does this by converting our wheel to an egg, and then...

I propose to deprecate all command line options for this and let users control the feature entirely with the C macro. If users have set the option before, we can...

Thanks. Your failing test uses an extern class, so I think it should be enough to do this for extern classes only, i.e. assume that we may not know the...

… and you reverted it, because … ?

3.0.x commit is here: https://github.com/cython/cython/commit/351b292d8bb3a5b60f600b3f43ad23ad26ca41d4

I've commented on the ticket that I'd rather like to see this further investigated than opened up.