STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@gmail.com> added the comment: > Would the proposed change mean that a bdist_wininst built > with 3.2.0 won’t work with a patched 3.2.3?
The installer doesn't use distutils to read its configuration, so such binary runs with any installed Python version. > bdist_msi decodes data read from setup.py with MBCS on Windows; > on other OSes, couldn’t the locale preferred encoding be used? It would be worse: Linux doesn't use Windows code page. Most modern OSes are now using UTF-8 locale encoding, whereas Windows never use UTF-8 as the ANSI code page. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10945> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
