On Mon, Aug 15, 2016, at 08:09 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > Finally, bdist_egg is quite possibly the trickiest one to justify. A fair > number of people still upload eggs, even though we have the wheel format. > However, I think that we should (and generally do) consider eggs to be > deprecated and while we don't want to break existing packages by removing > them, > we should block further uploads for them. Looking again at the download > numbers > eggs represented only 1.8% of total downloads in the last 30 days while > wheels > represented 41% and sdists represented 56%.
Is it possible to get the numbers for the proportion of uploads represented by different formats? I think this simplification is a good idea, but I expect there will be some people frustrated when their egg uploads no longer work. We still upload .zip sdists for some of our projects, in addition to .tar.gz, but I think that's a habit left over from the days when it was common to download and unpack sdists manually to run setup.py. I don't think we lose anything if we drop the .zip downloads now. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
