[Distutils] string types for paths in PEP 517

[xoviat]

+1

2017-09-05 3:21 GMT-05:00 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>:

> On 5 September 2017 at 09:00, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
> > I considered this. It's *potentially* a problem, but I think we should
> > not try to deal with it for now:
> >
> > - Normally, temp files will go in /tmp - so it should be fine to
> > construct paths of entirely ascii characters.
> > - Frontends that want the wheel to end up elsewhere can ask for it in a
> > tmp directory first and then move it, so there's a workaround if it
> > becomes an issue.
> > - We already have workarounds for the commonest case of UTF-8 paths + C
> > locale: ignore the locale and treat paths as UTF-8.
> > - The 'right' way to deal with it on Unix is to make all paths bytes,
> > which would introduce a similar issue on Windows. If paths have to be
> > bytes in some situations and unicode in others, both frontends and
> > backends need extra complexity to handle that.
> > - If your non-ascii username breaks stuff on Python 2... Python 3 is
> > ready to make your life easier.
>
> +1 on this
> Paul
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