Jason R. Coombs

@DWesl or @lazka, do you have any opinion or insight into this issue and what should happen next?

I don't know how to build ChimeraX, but I do know how to build indygreg/python-build-standalone, so I attempted the same repro: ``` $ git clone -q gh://indygreg/python-build-standalone $ cd python-build-standalone...

Definitely seems worth fixing. It also sounds like it's not urgent. Let's defer this effort until this codebase has some permanent traction in the ecosystem.

Happy to resume work on this. Care to draft a fix?

Setuptools has adopted distutils from the stdlib. Therefore, it's necessary for any cygwin-specific features to gain native support in distutils. It's no longer viable for cygwin to monkeypatch distutils. I'll...

I think Anderson means [pypa/distutils](/pypa/distutils). It's likely the issue is root caused in logic from distutils. I'll go ahead and move it there. @dlech Are you interested and willing to...

I've managed to fix the Windows tests and I started looking into the setuptools integration test failures. As it turns out, those are going to be harder to solve. I...

> A more compatible and more limited approach would be to just call `os.fspath` on all inputs, and keep the validation, the internal and exposed paths type as is. That's...

> So this should stay a distribution patch? I’d say no. The goal of Setuptools adoption of distutils is to remove the need for distribution patches. If a distribution wishes...

> > You are assuming that LIBDIR is in the dynamic linker's default search directories which is not true for some python distributions. > > Is there a way to...