On Oct 5, 2015 8:41 AM, "Paul Moore" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 5 October 2015 at 14:25, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > > The main thing I wanted was something that wasn't a mouthful to say and that > > had a dedicated extension so we don't end up where the filename looks > > incredibly generic (requests-1.0.swhl vs requests-1.0.tar.gz). > > You find "Source Wheel" easier to say / type than "sdist"? (I type it > more than say it, but typing sdist is easier, and when I say it I > usually go for "ess-dist, or suh-dist"). And ".sdist" seems like a > perfectly good suffix to me.
How about something like .sdist.whl.zip ? There are already many tools with e.g. ZIP MIME extensions so that one can open the file and browse the archive with a file explorer without a platform specific file type association install step > > And the bikeshed should be a light purple colour :-) > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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