John Vandenberg

Continuing from the post at https://github.com/ninjaaron/fast-entry_points/issues/11#issuecomment-542650736 about `fastep` not being designed for all `setup.py` , and that being a hard problem to solve, you may have noticed https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/issues/553 . There...

Rather than splitting the two, my hope was to find an existing project which already is the "`setup.py` editing toolkit" we need, or is an existing project which can be...

RPMs are usually built using `setup.py`, and tested using `setup.py test`. See https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/devel:languages:python for a small collection of python packages with .spec files in each. Fedora has the same, as...

One of the problems with wheels is that they still do not produce reproducible builds. i.e. each `pip install foo.whl` produces a different set of installed files (the cache files)....

I have finished creating my own example of using tox to test something which requires isolated environments, with command `python -c 'assert ...'` checking the state within the isolated environment....

Ya. Maybe read the generated executable and check its contents are what were expected, i.e. not the garbage setuptools creates.

Thanks a bundle. I'll attempt to get it packaged and tested today.

I linked to this issue at https://discuss.python.org/t/build-system-and-undeclared-dependency-on-it-during-runtime/2455/12 , where there seems to be some fresh energy to tackle the old problem of/with pkg_resources. Packaged at https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:jayvdb:py-fep/python-fastentrypoints - the .spec is...

Lets continue the discussion about fastep on the https://github.com/ninjaaron/fast-entry_points/issues/18

Also occurring on Appveyor, which appears to not have a timeout. https://ci.appveyor.com/project/coala/coala-bears/build/1.0.6907