Matt Davis

The contents of this PR are included in #700; we've spent much of this past week iterating on that locally in preparation for an upcoming PyYAML 7.0.0a1 in the next...

I definitely want this in v.next, but especially if that ends up being a major release (which I assume it will be if we include 1.2 support and some form...

@kloczek thanks- the Python PATH mess on Windows to get it to find the right version of the script is a lot harder to untangle (which is why it was...

> Should it be possible to just run pytest (plus any flags) to get successful tests? Sort of; ultimately pytest has to be able to import the code-under-test, and you...

> IMO ruamel being hosted on sourceforge for some reason makes it a no go I doubt the upstream hosting location would be a significant deterrent. I didn't follow it...

I think we're all agreed this is an old implementation issue, not a spec issue- I'm willing to spend some time trying to make it work in the next release,...

Heh, thanks @JonathonReinhart... I totally get the need- I've had it myself numerous times, and I usually end up reaching for ruamel (or other hacks I'm ashamed of and don't...

Cool- we've been poking at doing another release, and since we sat on it long enough, setuptools and pip now fully support PEP517/518 config passthru from the CLI, which should...

@jmakov the likely short-term fix will be to pin the Cython PEP518 build deps to pre-3.0 Cython in a 6.x release (see #702), but we generally consider the 5.x release...

@jmakov after looking at the issue you just linked, now I think I see how you ended up building PyYAML with an unreleased Cython 3.x; IIRC pip's `--pre` option globally...