Bryce Gattis

For easier access, adding an exact link to @ColinKennedy's work on an old wiki doc page: https://github.com/ColinKennedy/rez/blob/issues/996-add_rez_test_example_package/wiki/pages/Testing-Packages.md We should port this page to the new Sphinx documentation.

Think we could circle back around to #1668 and see if we can come up with action items?

Also curious about #1475 and if we can get that one closed soon. I know that's a big one.

@simonh10 Could we get this merged in possibly?

I just wanted to clarify for myself why having global state in Rez is bad. The specific case I'm thinking of if is if I want to load configuration settings...

I'd assume this is already slated, but perhaps just a general update on 3.0 release content and timing?

+1 as something I'm still coming across. On Windows Rez breaks with issues with escaped characters. Also, +1 to the concept of seeing what exactly is causing the remapping to...

@cfxegbert, I see in the vendor folder's `README.md` [file](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/rez/blob/main/src/rez/vendor/README.md) that the description is "Updated (June 2019) to enable wheel distribution based installations." I wonder if we can just update to...

@cfxegbert Looks like it's fixed in [this](https://github.com/pypa/distlib/commit/2a5859c369a8008a906da5ef593e26d7931a2dcc) commit on the `distlib` GitHub. It's part of the v0.3.3 release.

I do want to mention a specific example. With old `rez-pip` I could run `rez-pip "docopt>=0.5" --install`, and the conversion worked with the following output: ``` $ rez-pip "docopt>=0.5" --install...