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

[Daniel Holth]

The format you want is zstandard or brotli. Maybe fastly be interested in
sponsoring bandwidth efficient file formats? :-) It would be cool to have a
way to do signatures and hashing before compression.

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 22:59 Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

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> On Jun 15, 2017, at 10:51 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I can see some benefit to standardizing on a single format instead of
> making every backend author learn e.g. the weird quirks required to
> get unicode filenames correct in two different formats, and I'm not
> sure why it would be a big deal to change the default for new tools
> going forward given that all our infrastructure does support .zip
> already.
>
>
>
> I believe it would be fairly disruptive for downstream redistributors like
> Debian whose tooling is designed around the idea of a .tar.gz file, and
> whom are forced to repack .zip files into .tar.gz files AIUI. I don’t
> really personally care that much about the difference between .zip or
> .tar.gz for a sdist, I just want to minimize people yelling at me unless
> it’s for a good reason, and I don’t think this is a good reason :)
>
> —
>
> Donald Stufft
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