On Thu, Aug 25, 2016, at 05:29 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Could you give a bit more detail on how you came to be publishing > both? The main thing we're trying to avoid is missing a practical use > case for the status quo where folks can upload both - if it's just an > artifact of Windows and *nix having different default formats, then > the convergence in distutils and setuptools will fix it implicitly, > but if it's a deliberate design decision, then we need to check if > that's based on a misunderstanding of how pip/easy_install/et al > consume the two formats.
I think that script was created before my time in the project. I'd guess it's just a historical artefact, but Fernando might know more. Fernando: is there a reason we publish both .zip and .tar.gz sdists for each release? PyPA is thinking of only allowing one sdist per release. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
