On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 1:08 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 at 08:35, Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> 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!)
How is the new pip code path slated to behave with respect to Jeroen's question / preference? Is it already specified or does it fall out of the behavior of existing components, or is it still TBD? --Chris -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/WSCIBRFPXNZRMJJQOYQP6UE5RZXH7BOW/
