[Distutils] Towards a simple and standard sdist format that isn't intertwined with distutils

[Donald Stufft]

On October 5, 2015 at 9:41:28 AM, Paul Moore (p.f.moore at gmail.com) wrote:
> On 5 October 2015 at 14:25, Donald Stufft wrote:
> > The main thing I wanted was something that wasn't a mouthful to say and that
> > had a dedicated extension so we don't end up where the filename looks
> > incredibly generic (requests-1.0.swhl vs requests-1.0.tar.gz).
> 
> You find "Source Wheel" easier to say / type than "sdist"? (I type it
> more than say it, but typing sdist is easier, and when I say it I
> usually go for "ess-dist, or suh-dist"). And ".sdist" seems like a
> perfectly good suffix to me.

Yea I do, but I have a stutter and "d" (particularly trying to transition to it
from the "s") and "st" are hard for me to get the sounds out anyways (ironic
given my name contains both a D and a St!). I don't know how hard it is for
someone else to say, probably slightly harder but not by much. This is why I
also hate the "distribution" term, I have a hard time saying the whole word
without getting stuck in the "stribut" part.

Anyways, name is the least important part to me as long as we get a dedicated
extension out of it :)

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Donald Stufft
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