Conda-build

Enhancements:
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* tests on linux/mac now use 255-character prefix when creating test environment 1799
* allow test/imports for R and lua packages 1806

Bug fixes:
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* Fix case comparison in license_family.py 1761
* Fix symlinked folders not being included in packages 1770
* Fix extraction of tarballs containing unicode filenames 1779, 1804
* fix unicode in delimiter for noarch py_file_map 1789
* Clean up conda interface 1791
* Confine conda-build 2.1.x to conda >4.1,<=4.3 1792
* fix detection of patch strip level when maxlevel = 0 1796
* fix attribute error in exception handling for missing dependencies 1800
* fix osx python_app test for python 3.6 1801
* don't die when unicode found in patch files 1802
* clarify error messaging when git is not found 1803
* fix shebangs in entry point scripts using legacy noarch_python 1806
* fix test environment variables being set to build prefix values 1806
* fix inspect linkages breaking due to conda index keys changing to different objects in conda 4.3 1810


Contributors:
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* gbrener
* kalefranz
* msarahan
* pkgw
* stuertz

Enhancements:
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* don't crash on unknown selector. Warn, but evaluate as False. 1753
* allow default conda packaging behavior for split package whose name matches top-level name, but lacks both ``files`` and ``script`` entry. 1758


Bug fixes:
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* unify license family text with Anaconda-Verify 1744
* apply post-processing to each split package, not just to post-build prefix files. 1747
* provide fallback lock directory in user's home folder. Allows central installs. 1749
* fix quoting for test paths. Allows croot with spaces. 1750
* fix pypi skeleton recursion 1754
* fix assertion error about leading period when Jinja2 variables have default values 1757
* set default twine target to pypitest to avoid accidental uploads 1758


Contributors:
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* gabm
* msarahan

Enhancements:
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* Allow relative paths for --croot option 1736

Bug fixes:
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* Rename package_metadata.json file to link.json to more accurately reflect contents 1720
* Fix converted packages from unix to Windows having broken entry points 1721
* Fix an infinite loop when creating the test environment failed 1739
* Fix conda 4.3 incompatibility with --pin-depends option 1740

Contributors:

* gabm
* kalefranze
* msarahan

Enhancements:
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* Add --extra-specs to conda skeleton. Use when a package needs to be available in the temporary env that parses setup.py to make the skeleton. 1697
* Allow wheels as a source format 1700
* Allow github urls as CRAN skeleton sources 1710

Bug fixes:
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* exclude package/name field from uses_vcs_in_{meta,build} checks 1696
* Fix conda convert wrt info/paths.json (for conda 4.3 compatibility) 1701
* update cpan skeleton to use newer API url, fix conda exception handling 1704
* update R default version to 3.3.2 1707
* fix attribute error on exception handling (better fix on the way) 1709
* fix bundle_conda removing project files when conda recipe was in the source tree, and utilized relative paths 1715
* fix glob trying to interpret filenames that look like glob patterns 1717


Contributors:
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* ElliotJH
* jerowe
* kalefranz
* mingwandroid
* minrk
* msarahan
* rainwoodman

Enhancements:
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* iron out compatibility with conda 4.3 1667
* pytest improvements for a cleaner CI experience 1686 1687

Bug fixes:
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* Avoid trailing semicolon in MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL variable setting 1651
* filter .git directories more strictly (keep x.git folders, not .git) 1657
* fix 404's killing CPAN skeleton with newer conda versions 1667
* use pythonw to run tests on OSX when osx_is_app is defined in meta.yaml 1669
* ignore obnoxious .DS_Store files when packaging 1670
* fix --source argument to download source specified in meta.yaml 1671
* fix slashes in file prefix replacement on Windows 1680
* fix multiple source url fallbacks (handle CondaHTTPErrors) 1683
* fix bizarre encoding errors on Windows with projects that embed binary in setup files 1685
* fix CPAN JSON file encoding issue on windows 1688
* revise retry when conda is missing files from a package 1690

Contributors:
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* dfroger
* kalefranz
* mingwandroid
* msarahan
* nicoddemus
* pkgw

Bug fixes:
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* Fix package conversion consistency, wrt entry points 1609
* Fix about.json contents regarding development versions of conda/conda-build 1625
* Fix Appveyor for testing against source branches of conda 1628
* Raise exception when SRC_DIR is used in tests, but meta.yaml has no test/source_files entry. SRC_DIR points at test work folder at test time, for minimal needed changes to recipes - just add test/source_files entry with desired files. 1630
* Fix features list not allowed to be None in bdist_conda 1636
* Fix undefined reference to locks in copy_into 1637
* Fix version comparison in cpan skeleton 1638
* Add dependency on beautifulsoup4 and chardet to better support strangely encoded text files. 1641
* Fix not-yet-fully-rendered versions starting with . from raising exception 1644
* Consolidate _check_call and check_call_env in utils. Fix coercion to string that was missing in latter. 1645

Contributors:
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* gomyhr
* jakirkham
* kalefranz
* msarahan