On 21 August 2016 at 18:21, 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.
Once we have a universal default, unilaterally changing that default gets easier, rather than harder - the main precedent being set here is that we *don't want* the default format to be platform dependent, we want there to be just one default. My core assumption in recommending starting with tar.gz as that universal default is that Windows users will mostly be interacting with sdists through tooling that is closely linked to or at least originated in the Python ecosystem (easy_install, pip, PyPM, conda, Enthought Canopy, buildout, Christoph Gohlke's Windows installers), and that double-clicking a Python sdist in an Explorer window is not something most folks are in the habit of doing. By contrast, I *know* Linux distros are in the habit of pulling release tarballs from PyPI and feeding them directly into their release pipelines, so the potential for unanticipated breakage seems much higher there, and more likely to fall on community distros rather than on commercial Python redistributors (simply because there are more volunteers working on Linux based tooling than there are on WIndows developer tools). Now, it may be that first assumption is wrong, and that folks actually are relying on the sdist-as-zip behaviour on Windows in the same way folks rely on the sdist-as-tarball behaviour on Linux. If that's the case, then the Python 3.6 beta period will be the point where we really want the Windows-supporting redistributors and folks doing development and deployment on Windows to kick the tires of this change and report any problems that arise - it may be that we end up needing to find a different way to close the current format loophole that allows two different sdists to be uploaded for the same version. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
