[Python-Dev] Windows installer and .pyc files mtime (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim at zope.com
Tue Sep 16 14:47:00 EDT 2003


[Tim]

Everything I tried worked fine. I think the default should be not to compile .pyc files. Regardless of the default, popping up a DOS box during compilation doesn't bother me at all.

[Thomas Heller]

Great, I'll change it. But when there's an option to compile .pyc, shouldn't there also be an option for .pyo (and should it use -O or -OO)?

Sounds like YAGNI. In the years I did the Windows installer, nobody asked for compilation. I haven't seen anyone here ask for it either, just a few people saying they think other people might want it. Since I wasn't one of them, you're going to have to ask someone who thinks they can channel these oddly unassertive users .



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