On 14 June 2017 at 02:53, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > While the > standard library does still default to GNU_FORMAT in general, the > stated rationale for doing so (it being more widely supported than > PAX_FORMAT) was last updated more than 10 years ago, and I don't think > it applies here.
Maybe add a note to the PEP explicitly calling out the fact that this isn't the default behaviour for the stdlib? Otherwise I bet people will miss this point. (Some people will probably miss it even with a note, but we improve the odds :-)) Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
