On Aug 15, 2016, at 05:39 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >so narrowing it down to only .tar.gz and .tgz is pretty safe, but practically >nobody uses .tgz anyways so why bother?
I agree with all of your reasoning. FWIW, I personally use .tgz all the time when making backups of things locally, but rarely use it for publicly consumable artifacts. And since the sdists setupdistutilstools generates will only be .tar.gz, I think it's fine to disallow .tgz. Cheers, -Barry
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