On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> One thing to remember is that Windows can't read tar files natively while > it can for zip files. Now you can easily download tools on Windows to read > tar files and thanks to Bash on Windows you even have it included once you > turn that feature on. > > The other point is we have a zip importer in Python but not a .tar.gz one. I > don't know how often anyone actually downloads a zip file directly from > PyPI and then tack it on to their sys.path for importing, but that is > currently possible. > > I doubt either of these points are important enough to continue to support > zip files for sdists, > I do -- what advantage does tar.gz have over zip? Zip's always been supported on any platform I've used... But both are in python's stdlib, so I suppose everyone has it that has Python. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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