[Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

[Paul Moore]

On 17 August 2016 at 18:49, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
> PEX - Python Executable
>
> - It's a ZIP with an executable header and entry points.
>
> - PEX probably solves for the AWS Lambda case
> - PEX is unsupported by PyPI (e.g. sadly doesnt work with DevPi
> application-level package repository caching)

I'm not quite sure what point you're making here, but pex doesn't
support Windows, which is a major downside for anything intended as a
standard solution for Python (it is of course fine for the pex project
to not support Windows, but that's a different matter).

Paul