Jonathon Belotti

Thanks for your issue report. > is changed into [extended-length path](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21194530/what-does-mean-when-prepended-to-a-file-path) by rules_python, Where in the code do you think this is happening? I must profess ignorance of Windows' extended-length...

IIUC this problem lies in `bazelbuild/bazel`, and we need to work to get https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/10660 triaged there.

> Creating a wrapper myself using ... Yeah this is what we do as well. I think there's a similar shaped problem with Pytest plugins. We have a `py_binary` wrapper...

hey @smukherj1, Thanks for the response. Is it definite that this is because the resolver is spuriously attempting to hit some network address and never getting a response? As I...

Thanks for your input Christopher. > would leave us open to denial-of-service and/or concurrency-related problems. The latter makes sense to me, but how exactly is DOS at play if you...

I think these issues have been addressed in #16 and #17. I'll reopen if not.

> I could also copy the contents of `pypi__pyqt5_qt5` and `pypi__pyqt5_sip` into `pypi__pyqt5`. Is this why the dlib resolving happens correctly outside of Bazel? Seems so, you say: "Pip installs...

I don't know where it came from unfortunately, I was just linked to me. Turns out it just uses tabs as delimiters. Is this possible in `.rpt`?

Yeah I don't know how widespread this is, but it's possible someone just put the wrong extension on a `.tsv` file. The warning would be useful, instead of just failing....

@alexellis is there a workaround for this issue?