Flit already supports $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for building wheels. I think the environment variable is a good idea: if it gets wide support, you will be able to set a single thing to affect lots of different build tools, rather than working out where you need to add command line arguments to half a dozen different build steps.
Thomas On Fri, Mar 17, 2017, at 05:33 PM, Matthias Bussonnier wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
