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

[Wes Turner]

On Saturday, August 20, 2016, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 at 12:53 Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','donald at stufft.io');>> wrote:
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>> Oh, and TIL that anyone who has Python 3.4+ installed has a command line
>> tool for extracting ``.tar.gz`` files [2]
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> So I think you're both right, but at different time scales. :) I think
> Donald is right that the short-term time scale of "now" by suggesting we
> just go with tar.gz since it has the numbers. But I think Leonardo's point
> of general alignment with zip for packaging overall is good for the
> "formally define sdist" time scale and we potentially introduce an .sdist
> file extension.
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How about, as a convention,
.sdist.zip
.sdist.tar.gz

So that file type associations with archive programs still work?
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