<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 5, 2017, at 12:55 PM, Ethan Furman <<a href="mailto:ethan@stoneleaf.us" class="">ethan@stoneleaf.us</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 01/05/2017 08:46 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jan 5, 2017, at 11:45 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Do I need to choose between zip and tar sdists?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Yes.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I haven't followed Windows O/Ses for a while now -- are they able to easily access tar files? Or do *nix machines come standard with unzip now?<br class=""><br class="">Or is it more along the lines of -- you seem to be a developer, so you should be able to install the one you need? ;)<br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">~Ethan~<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Distutils-SIG maillist - <a href="mailto:Distutils-SIG@python.org" class="">Distutils-SIG@python.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig" class="">https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">.tar.gz is the recommended format but either one is OK. I think that there is still the default tool disparity but getting a tool to open either one is fairly trivial, particularly since you can do ``python3 -m tarfile -e foobar-1.0.tar.gz. That being said, non-automated downloads account for a tiny fraction of the total downloads on PyPI so I wouldn’t worry too much about that use case in general.</div><div class="">
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