[pytest-dev] removing assertion reinterpretation and making the assertion rewriter a vendored package

[Tom Viner]

>
> > while doing that i'd also like to turn the assertion rewriter into a
> > package exposing a minimal api
> > that way its releases can be done more in lock with python releases
> >
> > also its possible for others to use it and contribute to it
>

Michael Foord (maintainer of unittest) wondered about this possibility when
assertion rewriting was added 5 years ago:

http://pybites.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/behind-scenes-of-pytests-new-assertion.html?showComment=1310466554325#c8180305815700456332
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