Sergey G. Brester

That exports are for TC itself, the implementation of binding to 7zip is fully internal. With other words the answer is - no. Neither they are known, nor they can...

Just for the record, thinking twice, I could also imagine that it could be the fix for #401 and #353, just... they are not released yet. The question is which...

> The base problem is, upon restarting fail2ban, it runs all the actionbans which will trigger curl to call all the API calls, thus possibly exhausting the available API call...

You seem to misunderstand the deprecation: it is not the `setuptools` what is deprecated, but `setup.py install` method. See [Python Packaging :: Should `setup.py` be deleted?](https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/modernize-setup-py-project/#should-setup-py-be-deleted). With other words, one...

> Please show me the contents of your systemd service file that is installed by pip install. We don't install it (and never did it) by manual install - as...

How about this one?.. In branch [fix-pythonic-build-install](https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/compare/f7aaaf50b8bfa9a92a9cd72d67c12fe5137ff8c4...fix-pythonic-build-install) I extended setup.py with 2 new commands - `build-ex` and `install-ex` (not yet ready, only builds at the moment), that internally uses setuptools...

small amend: commands `f2b-build` and `f2b-install` renamed in `build-ex` and `install-ex` (comment above adjusted)

Option `--prefix` and command `install-ex` (with `--root`) are also implemented now: ``` python3 setup.py install-ex --root=./pkg --build-base=./build --prefix=/usr --without-tests ``` This would firstly build to folder "./build" (using `build-ex` command)...

Did someone test it? Some comments?

@thesamesam, @eli-schwartz ping... How it looks for you? @fail2ban/maintainers Any opinions or objections? I'd like to make a next release and it'd be nice if this can be clarified.