Paul Moore

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BTW, my explanation of the objection I've seen is wrong (if you exec the file,you don't need it on sys.path). One real issue is getting encodings right. The `execfile` approach...

No, I was pointing out that your edits omitted the note that the fact that it used regexps is a factor. I don't think there's anything new in the fact...

One minor thing - @hynek's post says "Sorry, no Windows", which in't needed as (as far as I can see) there's basically nothing in the post that's OS-specific. But that...

I haven't run all of the commands, but I have reviewed everything and the only points I'd make are: 1. The `read()` function in `setup.py` assumes UTF-8. Windows users will...

Agreed this is a bad situation. IMO it should be raised as an issue against CPython, flagging that the current state of the Microsoft stubs means that there is no...

I agree with @pradyunsg - this is *way* too big to practically review. I read the summary of your approach above, as well as briefly skimming the structure of the...

Strong +1 to this. The speed up for wheels is likely even greater on Windows, where creating subprocesses (i.e. running setuptools) is costly. And when pip implements PEP 517, that...