[Distutils] PEP 517: Open questions around artifact export directories

[Thomas Kluyver]

I have updated the PR as requested:

1. Specify the PAX format, and note that it is not yet the default for
the tarfile module in Python.
2. Updated the self-contained backend example with Nick's suggestions.

Thomas

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017, at 08:53 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 14 June 2017 at 02:53, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > While the
> > standard library does still default to GNU_FORMAT in general, the
> > stated rationale for doing so (it being more widely supported than
> > PAX_FORMAT) was last updated more than 10 years ago, and I don't think
> > it applies here.
> 
> Maybe add a note to the PEP explicitly calling out the fact that this
> isn't the default behaviour for the stdlib? Otherwise I bet people
> will miss this point. (Some people will probably miss it even with a
> note, but we improve the odds :-))
> 
> Paul