Darren Kenny wrote:
> Not preserving dates/times is likely to cause more issues in the long run I
> would suspect - the fact that we had to special-case .pyc files at all should 
> be
> seen as a precursor to that.
> 
> Why did we deviate from the existing defaults for most OS's packaging on this 
> point?
> 
> Darren.
> 

The initial implementation chose not to maintain timestamps.
It's easy enough to add in if we decide we need to....

It does make telling which files are new a royal pain in the a**.

- Bart


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