Dan Ryan

What about a slack group or something?

I'm open to alternatives but SO is pretty bad for general discussion and basically any alternative is better. I use VF pretty heavily and am happy to make contributions (but...

- It is definitely possible to retain the current API using colorama, I preserved the API for use in `vistir` with a wrapper and some tweaks to the implementation, so...

I will open a PR with an implementation and tests in case you are interested in accepting this change. Happy to make adjustments as well. Thanks!

@mhammond our resolver code attempts to resolve dependencies whether or not any given system can actually use them. In practical terms this means introspection of a given wheel. With `pywin32`...

@thopiekar because we didn't write setuptools -- this is the default behavior. Setuptools expects to always be able to run a setupfile whether the package is suitable for a platform...

You can do windows specific stuff in an if block but technically with where python packaging is heading (see pep 517/518) it would be better to separate this kind of...

Thanks for the thoughtful discussions all around and as always @altendky has it on the head— this hits at the core issue in python packaging which is that setup.py is...

for praticality's sake it should probably just do a comparison against equivalent cache key

Likewise, but I don’t think we should fail... presumably we shouldn’t write the bad value?