Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:
> other container like zip-container is
> not well designed for unix-like file systems.
Well, please be more specific as to why zip it affects "sdist" in
particular. Never before have I heard anyone claim that zip was
ill-suited for source tarballs.
> I disagree with request. Package distribution is platform dependent.
It is not package distribution. It is package generation. If you use the
same command ("sdist"), it would be nicer if it produced the same result
regardless of whether you are under Unix or Windows.
(platform-dependent packages, by the way, are rpm, deb, msi, etc. ;-))
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