On Saturday, August 20, 2016, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 at 12:53 Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','don...@stufft.io');>> wrote: > >> >> >> Oh, and TIL that anyone who has Python 3.4+ installed has a command line >> tool for extracting ``.tar.gz`` files [2] >> > > So I think you're both right, but at different time scales. :) I think > Donald is right that the short-term time scale of "now" by suggesting we > just go with tar.gz since it has the numbers. But I think Leonardo's point > of general alignment with zip for packaging overall is good for the > "formally define sdist" time scale and we potentially introduce an .sdist > file extension. >
How about, as a convention, .sdist.zip .sdist.tar.gz So that file type associations with archive programs still work?
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