Re: Timestamp of installed files
Paul Moore <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 at 08:35, Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > So both are different issues, and I agree with both: during the source > extraction and build process, you want to preserve timestamps as much as > possible. But for the installation, you do NOT want to preserve timestamps. If this is about the distutils install command, it's worth noting that pip is moving to a situation where we'll never use the distutils/setuptools "install" command, bur rather we'll build wheels and install from wheel. The new PEP 517 installation code will use that route exclusively (there's not even a provision in PEP 517 for direct installs from source). So the behaviour of the "setup.py install" command won't affect pip installs at all in the longer term. (How long, I don't know - it depends on how soon we feel we can switch fully to PEP 517, and it's a bit premature to decide on that, as the PEP 517 code isn't even released yet!) Paul -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/[email protected]/message/DAYG37OSAG6AVVTIBIVZTOO5OSHKBGY4/