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

[Daniel Holth]

I don't think we are defining a new file type today.

On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 8:03 PM Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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> 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
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> So that file type associations with archive programs still work?
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