Jason R. Coombs

Unfortunately, I don't have a strong opinion on the right thing to do here. @mgorny Do you have an opinion on kmod's proposal?

Thanks kxrob for the report, and specifically for what's needed. I think I understand now. I'm unsure why the initialization is deferred, but the include/lib dirs are dependent on the...

> > I think I agree that a compiler should expose the include/lib dirs as they would resolve when compiling, rather than hiding them in _fix_compiler_args. > > Are you...

This project isn't wed to any particular compiler and is open to support additional compilers. Ideally, it should also present one preferred compiler for each platform such that users get...

There were several problems identified in #169, including that temp paths get duplicated, causing very long, sometimes invalid paths.

When I inspect Python 3.11.0b1 on my local machine, I do see that platlibdir is DLLs... so I don't understand why the test fails. ``` PS C:\Users\jaraco> py -3.11 Python...

Aha. So it seems the value of `sys.platlibdir` has changed in Python 3.11: ``` PS C:\Users\jaraco> py -3.10 -c "import sys; print(sys.platlibdir)" lib PS C:\Users\jaraco> py -3.11 -c "import sys;...

@zooba Can you help here? In particular, why has platlibdir changed on Windows in Python 3.11, and what does that imply for 'home' dir installs? Should Python get a `platlibdir`...

I'm also unsure what `finalize_other` is meant to do here. I wonder if anybody even cares about the `_home` install scheme on Windows. I would think not, because the scheme...

Perhaps there's something that should be added to the build infrastructure to let the backends (and their plugins) know that it's working from an sdist, so it can make assumptions...