pantsbuild/pex v2.1.18

pex 2.1.18

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2.1.18

This release brings official support for Python 3.9 and adds a new --tmpdir option to explicitly
control the TMPDIR used by Pex and its subprocesses. The latter is useful when building PEXes in
space-constrained environments in the face of large distributions.

The release also fixes --cert and --client-cert so that they work with PEP-518 builds in
addition to fixing bytecode compilation races in highly parallel environments.

• Add a --tmpdir option to the Pex CLI. (#1068)
• Honor sys.executable unless macOS Framework. (#1065)
• Add Python 3.9 support. (#1064)
• Fix handling of --cert and --client-cert. (#1063)
• Add atomic_directory exclusive mode. (#1062)
• Fix --cert for PEP-518 builds. (#1060)