Ed Morley

> would be nice to make this compatible with both osx and linux. Is this to make testing functionality easier, or do you see people actually using the buildpacks on...

What environment variable name do you think would make sense for this? `BUILDPACK_VERBOSE` `BUILDPACK_METRICS` ...?

My use cases are: * "my deploys are slow, what is taking the most amount of time?" * "how are our deploy times changing over time?" There are currently no...

Related: heroku/heroku-buildpack-python#420 (since closed)

> There are currently no timestamps or durations at all in the log, other than the ones yarn outputs, and the "activity" page also doesn't list how long the entire...

Or to be more specific: 1. Is my interpretation of the docs correct? (I'm happy to open a PR to tweak the wording to make it clearer either way). 2....

I've done some further testing on Travis - I can reproduce the issue under all three combinations of: - legacy infra Ubuntu precise - container Ubuntu precise - GCE Ubuntu...

I've used this file to test the behaviour against [python-memcached](https://github.com/linsomniac/python-memcached), [python-binary-memcached](https://github.com/jaysonsantos/python-binary-memcached) & pylibmc (with both binary mode True and False): https://github.com/edmorley/memcached-test/blob/d5a15411cb17f1de7cbee65e02cfbe688333284d/test.py ([latest released versions of each](https://github.com/edmorley/memcached-test/blob/d5a15411cb17f1de7cbee65e02cfbe688333284d/requirements.txt)) Results: | Results |...

So there are a few issues: 1) At least in my local Vagrant 14.04 environment, the pylibmc `.set()` with a negative expiry gives a `False` return value, when not using...

Ah the local Vagrant Ubuntu 14.04 environment is x86 (I'd completely forgotten; table now updated above), which explains the difference in results (I'm presuming the -1 wraps around to a...