On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
> 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. > For Numpy and Scipy we also publish both, that's just because Windows users often prefer .zip. I don't see an issue with dropping one of the two. Ralf > > 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 >
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