Now I remember that just the other week I had to switch a project to zip sdists, because I was having trouble doing .tar.gz on Windows. Perhaps the greater availability of tools to deal with zip is the reason why 10% of sdists choose that format.
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:08 PM Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > 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 >
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