James Lamb

This work is paused, in favor of pursuing a better long-term solution in the future. Closing this PR for now. Subscribe to https://github.com/rapidsai/build-planning/issues/54 and https://github.com/rapidsai/build-planning/issues/56 for updates.

I've added an issue write-up (#5323), so this can be documented even if this specific PR isn't accepted. Thanks for your time and consideration.

As of #5264, a codepath that was raising `subprocess.CalledProcessError` started raising `conda_build.exceptions.BuildScriptException`, breaking the unit test I'd added here. I've merged latest `main` into this PR and updated the test....

I've updated this to latest `main`. Is there anything else you'd like to see on this PR? More tests, docs, etc.?

and this: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2023q4/010203.html

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/shell-experience/command-line-string-limitation

and this: https://pypi.org/stats/

added this one too: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/54466

`flake8` took the "add a flag to the main entrypoint" approach for some functionality. ```shell flake8 --help # --benchmark Print benchmark information about this run of Flake8 # --bug-report Print...

`pylint` also uses options to switch, although they make them mutually exclusive (instead of additive) ```shell pylint --help ``` ```text Commands: Options which are actually commands. Options in this group...