Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> added the comment: I am genuinely curious to hear a good reason why timestamps should be preserved by distutils. I cannot really imagine what could possibly break. As I said, this is the standard for many non-Python projects and it seems to work just fine.
I can see one potential backwards-compatibility issue for projects abusing distutils to do things unrelated to installing Python packages. So I understand that you don't want to change the default in the copy_file() function, but only in the methods calling that function. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32773> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
