Jason R. Coombs

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> On CPython windows it is not defined. This particular code path is only for Unix, so that's why the discrepancy hasn't been an issue. > I'm not sure how...

What's the status of this issue now that #209 is merged?

This sounds like a feature request rather than a bug. It appears to me you're attempting to build an extension that includes both C++ and C sources, but in the...

Gah. What a mess. Thanks for letting me know.

Oh, heck. Tests on cygwin are currently disabled because ruff fails to install there.

> How should I be fixing the doctests to not fail with working code on Cygwin? I don't see any problem with the doctests. Perhaps they've been resolved. The only...

This issue might have been fixed incidentally in #23, except that [backward compatibility for `$` substitutions was retained](https://github.com/pypa/distutils/commit/b733057518082897621c6749d7338c6c3987706e#diff-8c9b28d9e6ddefc6e92325a8e99ddbffe3e68755cdb33a08debe2c49303309e5R265-R281).

But more important is that literal characters in the path should never trigger substitutions.

I started to explore how it might be possible to allow these characters to pass without triggering substitutions, but then I realized that it's currently possible for someone to pass...

I notice there are conflicts. I tried to resolve the conflicts, but I don't seem to have access to the fork, so I've pushed a couple of commits to the...