On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, 01:57 Barry Scott, <barry@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
Please cover the pro's and con's of the alernatives that have been raised as comments on this idea, as is usually done for a PEP style document.
Thanks, i don't have much experience writing peps and if i don't bug you may i ask what "alternatives" refer to? Also beware that zip file format does not include the encoding of the files
that are in the zip file.
For the encoding of the contents, well since we are packaging python code files, it's handling will be the same as handling outside the zip file. It's handling is the same as how zipapp handles things. This means that for practical purposes only ASCII filenames are portable
across systems. Is this limitation a problem for this proposal?
If we are talking about filenames, then i guess ascii filenames are the way to go as you'd unnecessarily break things otherwise.