Aug. 4, 2018
12:02 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 4, 2018, at 9:34 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
Whether timestamps are preserved by the wheel building process depends on the build system - so the question boils down to "does setup.py bdist_wheel preserve timestamps?" in the case of the setuptools backend - which is really a question for the wheel project. In the more general case, you'd have to ask the same question of flit, and any other backends you cared about.
IIRC, Flit will preserve the timestamps of the files when you build a wheel, unless you use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to override them for a reproducible build. I think this is the norm for adding files to a zipfile from a regular filesystem. Thomas