[issue6296] Native (and default) tarfile support for setup.py sdist in distutils on Windows

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

As Michael said. As a Linux user I prefer tar.gz (or tar.bz2 or tar.xz),
but distutils should go with zip since it has better support everywhere.

It's true that tar supports lzma (although unfortunately there is still
no lzma support bundled in the stdlib), but for most source
distributions I don't think size is really critical.

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