On 25 August 2016 at 16:46, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > The Windows ones can also include code which is only relevant > on Windows while the Unix one includes parts that are only used > on Unix, so having two sets (ZIP for Windows and .tar.gz for Unix) > is a natural way to distribute your source code for those two > target systems.
> Standardizing on two sdist formats is fine, but artificially > limiting this to just one sdist upload removes useful > functionality. While I can't speak for others, I would be extremely confused (and annoyed) if 2 sdist files for the same release of a single Python package, using different archive formats, contained different contents. I'm not aware of any package on PyPI that does this [1], and I'd hope that remains the case (which it will, trivially, under the new proposal to only allow one sdist file per release). Paul [1] If there are any, I'd be happy to file a bug report against them ;-) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
