On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote: > I considered this. It's *potentially* a problem, but I think we should > not try to deal with it for now: > > - Normally, temp files will go in /tmp - so it should be fine to > construct paths of entirely ascii characters.
Does pip in fact use /tmp for temporary directories? (It's not always the right choice, because /tmp has limited space on some systems, e.g. b/c it's on a ramdisk. If we still had build_directory= then this could be an issue, since build directories can be arbitrarily large; maybe it's not a big deal now that we only need the tmpdir to handle a single sdist/wheel/dist-info.) > - Frontends that want the wheel to end up elsewhere can ask for it in a > tmp directory first and then move it, so there's a workaround if it > becomes an issue. > - We already have workarounds for the commonest case of UTF-8 paths + C > locale: ignore the locale and treat paths as UTF-8. Only in 3.7, I think? Or do you mean, backends should be doing this manually on Python 2? (To be clear, I think the current text is potentially fine, I just want to make sure I/we understand the full consequences instead of discovering them a year from now when we're stuck with them :-).) -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
