internal: Get rid of the whole "sub cache" business. * Compute cache keys up front, so the cache directory is only chosen once. * Buffer up config variants to apply before loading the config. Makes it possible to cache variant-resulting configs, too. * Make a factory class to reuse the logic that creates the `PieCrust` object correctly for multi-process workers and such. * Add a test.

import os


def slashfix(path):
    if path is None:
        return None
    if isinstance(path, str):
        return path.replace('/', os.sep)
    fixed = []
    for p in path:
        fixed.append(p.replace('/', os.sep))
    return fixed