Jason R. Coombs

A couple of alternative ways we might be able to improve performance without changing the API: 1. Instead of testing for `is_dir`, simply attempt each copy in a `try/except` that...

> The caching is tempting as a simple solution but the invalidation is going to be a problem. e.g. code to uninstall a wheel then reinstall a different version. That's...

I re-attempted the upload a third time, this time passing `-v` and redirecting the output to a file: ``` @ dbxcli put -v large_file Documents/large_file 2> ~/put.log ``` And this...

Thanks for the report. Your instinct seems right here. I worry a little bit about the arbitrarily-named sections. Is there precedent for that? A quick look through the code, I...

> Another is using `cythonize` to build Cython modules. I believe Setuptools has built-in support for building Cython modules without anything extra. Just needs (a) cython installed, which is possible...

I took a very brief look at the poetry proposal. Yikes! 43 files changed to add support for ext_modules? Not to impugn the motives of the contributor, but I can...

> Seems like the poetry developers were more daunted by the idea of causing people to depend on the setuptools API (?) which would prevent "more generic" tools. Thanks for...

> The poetry maintainers make me sad. Let's be charitable about our phrasing, especially when criticizing a person or group of people and especially when it's out of earshot (so...

@tvladyslav I want to avoid going off-topic here, so I'm hiding the comments. If you'd like to discuss, please open a separate issue or reach out in the PyPA Discord....

Restating from my hidden comment: I'd still love to see some static config for extension modules. I'd also like to consider some automatic detection such that static configuration is unnecessary...