Malcolm Smith

> I think the message is already clear enough Actually, as we've just found out from a user on Discord, the message is not displayed in non-verbose mode. All Briefcase...

Agreed, but in this case, "Unable to install APK" is certainly not a more useful message. Briefcase doesn't know why it failed, but the subprocess output will explain it.

It would be useful to allow the pyproject.toml file to reference a requirements file, but we don't currently support that (#1275). Meanwhile, you should be able to set the option...

The most flexible way would be to allow arbitrary pip options, [like Chaquopy does](https://chaquo.com/chaquopy/doc/current/android.html#android-requirements). @freakboy3742 @rmartin16: any thoughts?

> it would be possible to make rubicon-objc call `retain` and `release` automatically. This is how Pythonista's `objc_util` module does it - it calls `retain` when an `ObjCInstance` is created,...

I think enforcing integer suffixes is better than allowing a free choice, both for these reasons: > it would make the translation from Objective-C to Python unambiguous/deterministic (leading to consistent...

> Twice recently, we had to go through every single template repo and create an identical PR to apply the same update to each one. The similar and shared nature...

Wouldn't that make it much more complex to use a custom template? Right now, a template can be any directory location laid out in a cookiecutter-compatible format, and any custom...

Related: * #2099

Unfortunately this is a common issue on WIndows, and I don't think there's any workaround except putting all renames and deletions in a retry loop. There are packages such as...