[Distutils] Accepting PEP 527 (reducing the variety of file types supported by PyPI)

[Donald Stufft]

Thanks!

> On Sep 1, 2016, at 7:19 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Having reviewed the comments on the PEP 527 thread and the latest
> draft of the PEP, I'm now accepting the PEP. This means that:
> 
> * supported sdist types will be reduced to .tar.gz and .zip
> * projects will need to choose one or the other for future releases
> * supported binary formats will be reduced to bdist_wheel and bdist_egg
> 
> The problem that Maurits van Rees pointed out with ez_setup.py
> currently still specifically looking for a zip file and processing it
> accordingly can be resolved by setuptools settling on zip as its sdist
> publication format (unless/until ez_setup.py is changed to handle
> tar.gz).
> 
> Regards,
> Nick.
> 
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> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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Donald Stufft