problem uploading ZIP file tp PyPI

[Tony Meyer]

>>>>> setup.py sdist --format=zip
>>>>
>>>> Try without the --format arg. The code is being too paranoid.
>>>
>>> Oh, so even without --format, a ZIP source dist file is produced 
>>> anyway? If this is the case, please file a bug against PyPI.
>>
>> How is this a bug?  sdist is meant to produce a zip file on 
>> Windows if --format isn't used.  If "upload" overrides this for some 
>> reason, then the documentation should say so (and, IMO, it would be a 
>> mistake for that to be the case).
> 
> It's a bug against PyPI, not distutils.

Did you mean that the bug is that PyPI won't accept a zipped source
distribution?  To me, your message read like it was saying that (distutils)
producing a zip source distribution file without --format was a bug.

So (if the former is what you meant) would a workaround for now be to do
something like:

  setup.py sdist --format=gztar upload

?

=Tony.Meyer