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

[Donald Stufft]

> On Aug 19, 2016, at 10:23 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Consider that "setup.py sdist" produces .zip by default on Windows.


This is an important consideration that nobody mentioned thus far— I have not used Windows to release a project to PyPI.. ever. So We should absolutely start by switching that to defaulting to .tar.gz.

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Donald Stufft



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