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Changes
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* 2839: Removed ``requires`` sorting when installing wheels as an egg dir.
* 2953: Fixed a bug that easy install incorrectly parsed Python 3.10 version string.
* 3006: Fixed startup performance issue of Python interpreter due to imports of
costly modules in ``_distutils_hack`` -- by :user:`tiran`
Documentation changes
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* 2674: Added link to additional resources on packaging in Quickstart guide
* 3008: "In-tree" Sphinx extension for "favicons" replaced with ``sphinx-favicon``.
* 3008: SVG images (logo, banners, ...) optimised with the help of the ``scour``
package.
Misc
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* 2862: Added integration tests that focus on building and installing some packages in
the Python ecosystem via ``pip`` -- by :user:`abravalheri`
* 2952: Modified "vendoring" logic to keep license files.
* 2968: Improved isolation for some tests that where inadvertently using the project
root for builds, and therefore creating directories (e.g. ``build``, ``dist``,
``*.egg-info``) that could interfere with the outcome of other tests
-- by :user:`abravalheri`.
* 2968: Introduced new test fixtures ``venv``, ``venv_without_setuptools``,
``bare_venv`` that rely on the ``jaraco.envs`` package.
These new test fixtures were also used to remove the (currently problematic)
dependency on the ``pytest_virtualenv`` plugin.
* 2968: Removed ``tmp_src`` test fixture. Previously this fixture was copying all the
files and folders under the project root, including the ``.git`` directory,
which is error prone and increases testing time.
Since ``tmp_src`` was used to populate virtual environments (installing the
version of ``setuptools`` under test via the source tree), it was replaced by
the new ``setuptools_sdist`` and ``setuptools_wheel`` fixtures (that are build
only once per session testing and can be shared between all the workers for
read-only usage).