> On Aug 17, 2016, at 6:05 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > I do -- what advantage does tar.gz have over zip?
The two formats are roughly isomorphic in terms of technical reasons to pick one over the other, but distutils defaults to .tar.gz and most uploads to PyPI are .tar.gz. — Donald Stufft
_______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig