Attempt to recreate broken environments

[ssbarnea]

This bug was observed when machine was upgraded from one architecture to another (x64-aarm64) or when running on network shares.

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[ssbarnea]

I was inclined to catch any exception and attempt to recreate....

[ssbarnea]

@gaborbernat I can probably find a way to simulate the same kind of error with a test but I do not want to spend an entire day writing such a test just to be later told you do not want to merge the fix.

I really want to improve the UX for tox, so I will do it, but can you at least confirm that you also want to find a way to trigger recreate on broken environments? If we agree on that, we should be able to find a suitable implementation.

I am sure that envs can break in more than one way, but all we can do is to implement fixes gradually while we detect such cases.

[gaborbernat]

Sounds good :+1:

[gaborbernat]

Closing due to lack of progress.

[ssbarnea]

No offense taken, I got busy with more pressing issues. Speaking about progress, how is going with rewrite branch? 🤭

[gaborbernat]

how is going with rewrite branch

No promises :blush: lately been hindered with some health problems, so :shrug: eventually we'll get there I hope.