There was already a test for this, but it was complicated and had a
subtle bug (custom command objects need to be put in dist.command_obj so
that other command objects may see them) that rendered it moot.

Packaging uses the shutil.make_archive function copied from distutils,
which does not support compress.  There is no test to check that
“bdist --format whatever” works, so this slipped by.

These options were used to implement “setup.py --name”,
“setup.py --version”, etc. which are now handled by the pysetup metadata
action or direct parsing of the setup.cfg file.

As a side effect, the Distribution class no longer accepts a 'url' key
in its *attrs* argument: it has to be 'home-page' to be recognized as a
valid metadata field and passed down to the dist.metadata object.

I cleaned up some comments, docstrings and code along the way.

the C pickle implementation.

the C pickle implementation.

(more than 2**31 items).  Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.

(more than 2**31 items).  Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.

When called without option (“-f field” or “--all”), “pysetup metadata”
didn’t do anything useful.  Now it prints out all metadata fields.  The
“--all” option is removed.

the check against negative values, and add a note on this surprising test.
Patch by David Watson.

greater than FD_SETSIZE.

greater than FD_SETSIZE.

If the version of zlib used to compile the zlib module is incompatible
with the one that is actually linked in, then calls into zlib will fail.
This can leave attributes of the z_stream uninitialized, so we must take
care to avoid segfaulting by trying to use an invalid pointer.

Fix by Richard M. Tew.

If the version of zlib used to compile the zlib module is incompatible
with the one that is actually linked in, then calls into zlib will fail.
This can leave attributes of the z_stream uninitialized, so we must take
care to avoid segfaulting by trying to use an invalid pointer.

Fix by Richard M. Tew.

Fix #9923: mailcap now uses the OS path separator for the MAILCAP envvar. Not backported, since it could break cases where people worked around the old POSIX-specific behaviour on non-POSIX platforms.

Fix #12835: prevent use of the unencrypted sendmsg/recvmsg APIs on SSL wrapped sockets (Patch by David Watson)

-j doesn't pass the memlimit on to child processes, so this doesn't work at
present, and even if it did, running multiple bigmem tests at once would
usually not be desirable (since you generally want to devote as much of the
available RAM as possible to each test).

-j doesn't pass the memlimit on to child processes, so this doesn't work at
present, and even if it did, running multiple bigmem tests at once would
usually not be desirable (since you generally want to devote as much of the
available RAM as possible to each test).

The doc already points to argparse.