On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote: > An issue has been raised for reportlab to support a specific environment > variable namely SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. The intent is that we should get our time > from this variable rather than time.localtime(time.time()) so that produced > documents are more invariant. > > First off is this a reasonable request? The variable is defined by debian > here https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/ > > What happens if other distros decide not to use this environment variable? > Do I really want distro specific code in the package?
For what it is worth, it seem like it will make its way into CPython as well: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/296 And IFAICT, this env variable naming is already more than just debian. -- M > > In addition we already have our own mechanism for making the produced > documents > invariant although it might require an extension to support externally > specified date & time as in the debian variable. > > In short where does the distro responsibility and package maintainers > boundary need to be? > -- > Robin Becker > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
