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Author	vstinner
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, eric.araujo, loewis, runtux, tarek, techtonik, vstinner
Date	2012-03-13.12:53:42
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Message-id	<1331643223.05.0.666174655709.issue10945@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Would the proposed change mean that a bdist_wininst built > with 3.2.0 won’t work with a patched 3.2.3? The installer doesn't use distutils to read its configuration, so such binary runs with any installed Python version. > bdist_msi decodes data read from setup.py with MBCS on Windows; > on other OSes, couldn’t the locale preferred encoding be used? It would be worse: Linux doesn't use Windows code page. Most modern OSes are now using UTF-8 locale encoding, whereas Windows never use UTF-8 as the ANSI code page.

> Would the proposed change mean that a bdist_wininst built
> with 3.2.0 won’t work with a patched 3.2.3?

The installer doesn't use distutils to read its configuration, so such binary runs with any installed Python version.

> bdist_msi decodes data read from setup.py with MBCS on Windows;
> on other OSes, couldn’t the locale preferred encoding be used?

It would be worse: Linux doesn't use Windows code page. Most modern OSes are now using UTF-8 locale encoding, whereas Windows never use UTF-8 as the ANSI code page.

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