On 21 August 2016 at 09:21, Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote: > > tl;dr: I think standardising on .tar.gz would be a rather shortsighted > thing to do, given how many Windows users Python has and how much of a > different supporting .zip makes for workflow on that platform - with > no negative impacts on any other platform.
One thing that has (IIRC) come up in a pip bug in the past - how do tar and zip format fare in terms of Unicode support? IIRC, older versions of (I think) tar format don't include an encoding, nor do they mandate UTF-8, so they have the potential to break when used cross-platform. Sorry, I can't recall exact details. I think it's important that whatever format we mandate works with full Unicode filenames, and the available user tools support that. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
