Paul Ganssle

@adamRogerson Sorry for the very late reply. The answer is somewhat complicated in that I don't think we've done anything to fix it and I think it's unlikely that it...

I don't think adding a default_year parameter is the right solution here. The actual problem is that `time.strptime`, and by extension `datetime.strptime` has a strange and confusing interface. What should...

I would be in favor of either raising an exception if the year is unspecified or changing the default to some leap year. 2000 is fine. I think `4` would...

@njsmith Thanks for the prior art note, that's a very good taxonomy for it. > This would only solve the problem because opencv-python doesn't upload their sdists to PyPI, right?...

One thing to note is that right now the use cases are all or mostly about resolving "illusory conflicts" that are created by packages being forced to express stronger requirements...

> Agreed, I'm not happy with encouraging binary-only uploads. I think the problem of binary compatibility is a bit of a red herring. There are other reasons why you may...

> But you then go on to say "dependencies may be slow to add support for Python 3.7, or may only be available on Python 2 or 3", and I...

> The problem is, packaging is extremely complex and has endless edge cases and unusual situations. We can't make decisions on the basis of "can we imagine a situation where...

I am not interested in further justifying the use of this functionality at this point. Anyone else can feel free to try to make the case for it if there...

This indeed seems to be a duplicate of 29097, which is fixed in Python 3.7, so we can close this bug. Thank you for your report Dschoni, and thank you...