Aug. 4, 2018
7:34 a.m.
On 2018-08-04 00:02, Chris Jerdonek wrote:
I'm not sure how relevant it is, but this issue was recently filed on pip's issue tracker ("Reproducible installs"): https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5648
This seems to be about preserving timestamps when extracting wheel files.
There is also an older (closed) pip issue that might be relevant ("Preserving timestamps on copy"): https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3201
This is a different issue about preserving timestamps from the source directory to the temporary build directory. So both are different issues, and I agree with both: during the source extraction and build process, you want to preserve timestamps as much as possible. But for the installation, you do NOT want to preserve timestamps.