The main purpose of the source distribution is to have legal record of the release, and something from which people could re-create the release if GitHub and all mirrors thereof were to disappear.
For all other purpose, just use git. So, I see no reason to create different source distributions for different platforms. It is complication for no reason. Julian > On Dec 12, 2019, at 11:00 AM, Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Julian>The git repo, at a particular commit, has an objective contents > > That is true for binary blobs. > However, text files are converted on checkout as per core.autocrlf and > core.eol settings. > > Julian>I suspect that when you use ‘git checkout’ with particular options > > I suspect you are not very well aware of typical recommendations for Git > for Windows. > > Here's what GitHub recommends: > https://help.github.com/en/github/using-git/configuring-git-to-handle-line-endings#global-settings-for-line-endings > > "core.autocrlf true" means Git will convert text files to CRLF line endings > when "simple" "git clone https://..."; is used. > > Vladimir
