Chris Jerdonek

> and it may be worth considering that the enterprise users most likely to need SOCKS proxy support are also the ones most likely to be on 2.7. I could...

I was simply referring to the text of the commit itself: > I don't want to add socks as yet another dependency for pip If the author of the commit...

+1 for this. Whether or not this feature is implemented, I think the documentation should state that directory comparisons are done using "shallow=True". I created bpo-15250 for this.

Allowing dircmp() to accept a file comparison function is another option to consider that may address more needs going forward. shallow=False could be achieved by passing lambda a, b: filecmp.cmp(a,...