Marc-Andre Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: With "distutils users" I'm referring to people that are told to run "python setup.py install". Changed affecting the way this line behaves need to be carefully considered.
OTOH, when upgrading a package to a new Python version (and distutils version), package authors will have to modify their packages anyway, so it is well possible to ask them to use Unicode strings for meta-information. Supporting pre-2.6 Python version is also not much of a problem, since authors could setup the strings in question to be either Unicode or 8-bit strings depending on the Python version. This change would be really minor (compared to e.g the Py_ssize_t change ;-). That said, I don't think it's a good idea to make package data more complicated by allowing multiple encodings. The meta-data file should have a fixed pre-defined encoding, preferrably UTF-8. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2562> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
