On 2 Jun 2020, at 11:15 pm, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Also, I had expected the sdist to be the .tar.gz format, I can't find it >> back but IIRC that's what we decided in the past. It's smaller, and it's >> what pretty much all other projects do. > > NumPy has always used zip since PyPI limited the number of source releases. > We did that before SciPy. > The .tar.gz version (if file size really is an issue, why not using .tar.xz?) is also available from https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases and already was before the PyPI upload was completed.
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