Sorry for the late reply, just saw these.
The size difference is due to "setup.py dist" including documentation build
artifacts in the source-tarball. So I believe rc1 is so much smaller because
the "make sure docs build" part of the release checklist wasn't followed (or
was followed in a different clone) and so those build-artifacts aren't in it.
The procedure going forward will produce the source tarballs from a clean
clone. This procedure was followed for the actual 1.16.0 release.
Going forward, only a single source archive will be produced, in .tar.gz format
as well as the wheel.
(I figure .gz is better as I believe it has wider support than .bz2 even if the
compression isn't quite as good).
We are hoping to automate more of the release process, so ideally this becomes
even more consistent in the future.
thanks,
meejah
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