[Python-Dev] PEP 552: deterministic pycs (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Thu Sep 7 18:44:09 EDT 2017

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017, at 14:54, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

On Thu, 07 Sep 2017 14:32:19 -0700 Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote: > > > > Not sure how common that situation is (certainly the source tree wasn't > > read-only when you checked it out or untar'ed it), but isn't it easily > > circumvented by copying the source tree before building? > > Well, yes, in these kind of "batch" build situations, copying is > probably fine. However, I want to be able to have pyc determinism even > when developing. Copying the entire source every time I change something > isn't a nice.

Hmm... Are you developing from a read-only source tree?

No, but the build system is building from one (at least conceptually).

> The larger point is that while the SOURCEEPOCH patch will likely work > for Linux distributions, I'm interested in being able to have > deterministic pycs in "normal" Python development workflows. That's an interesting idea, but is there a concrete motivation or is it platonical? After all, if you're changing something in the source tree it's expected that the overall "signature" of the build will be modified too.

Yes, I have used Bazel to build pycs. Having pycs be deterministic allows interesting build system optimizations like Bazel distributed caching to work well for Python.

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