[Distutils] PEP 527 - Removing Un(der)used file types/extensions on PyPI

[Ralf Gommers]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk>
wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016, at 05:29 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > Could you give a bit more detail on how you came to be publishing
> > both? The main thing we're trying to avoid is missing a practical use
> > case for the status quo where folks can upload both - if it's just an
> > artifact of Windows and *nix having different default formats, then
> > the convergence in distutils and setuptools will fix it implicitly,
> > but if it's a deliberate design decision, then we need to check if
> > that's based on a misunderstanding of how pip/easy_install/et al
> > consume the two formats.
>

For Numpy and Scipy we also publish both, that's just because Windows users
often prefer .zip. I don't see an issue with dropping one of the two.

Ralf


>
> I think that script was created before my time in the project. I'd guess
> it's just a historical artefact, but Fernando might know more.
>
> Fernando: is there a reason we publish both .zip and .tar.gz sdists for
> each release? PyPA is thinking of only allowing one sdist per release.
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