Zanie Blue

I've rebased onto `main` and am taking a look in https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/pull/387

This looks blocked by GitHub Actions runner availability https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/pull/387#issuecomment-2447890742 — unless you have ideas.

I'll look into using paid runners, but I can't do that in this organization. Please see https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/issues/386#issuecomment-2447892135

They're ~actually available publicly~ (nope that's Linux) available in our org now but the images are missing all the necessary build tools.

The builds are passing, we're just waiting to merge them as we figure out how to handle distributing them downstream, as they the ecosystem isn't ready for them to be...

Just as a note, there's not much activity on my fork because there's not much to do after I added the functionality I needed and fixed spec-compliance — but I'll...

I'm not sure why these don't collapse, but I'd love to collapse them.

@owenlamont this issue is for a specific no solution error message case — it sounds like you're talking about something else. Please open a new issue with more details about...

That option is setuptools specific and is being deprecated, see - https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/11859 I think the idea is to use `--config-settings` instead? But honestly I'm confused about the state of `setuptools`...

It seems to have a significant holistic effect — this matches some expectations set by the [conda-forge folks](https://conda-forge.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/457337-general/topic/Performance.20of.20builds.20from.20.60python-feedstock.60.20vs.20upstream/near/501820400) and @carljm. The referenced number is on the full `pyperformance` benchmark suite....