[Python-Dev] Re: gzip.py: allow deterministic compression (without time stamp)

2021年4月15日 05:53:21 -0700

On 2021年4月15日 14:32:05 +0200
Victor Stinner <[email protected]> wrote:
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is not a random variable, but is a *standardised*
> environment variable:
> https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/ 
Standardized by whom? This is not a POSIX nor Windows standard at
least. Just because a Web page claims it is standardized doesn't mean
that it is.
> More and more projects adopted it. As I wrote, the Python stdlib
> already uses it in compileall and py_compile modules.
Those are higher-level modules. Doing it in the gzip module directly
sounds like the wrong place.
Regards
Antoine.
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