[Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

[Daniel Holth]

Targz is about 3/4 the size of zip for a bag of Python dists I tested. Zip
inside a second zip would provide the same compression. No word on the
Weissman score.

Tar isn't exactly a single format. For Unicode try POSIX-1.2001 aka pax
format tar. Python defaults to gnutar. Zip has good Unicode support.

Exactly how much simpler is exactly one file format?

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016, 06:57 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21 August 2016 at 09:21, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > tl;dr: I think standardising on .tar.gz would be a rather shortsighted
> > thing to do, given how many Windows users Python has and how much of a
> > different supporting .zip makes for workflow on that platform - with
> > no negative impacts on any other platform.
>
> One thing that has (IIRC) come up in a pip bug in the past - how do
> tar and zip format fare in terms of Unicode support? IIRC, older
> versions of (I think) tar format don't include an encoding, nor do
> they mandate UTF-8, so they have the potential to break when used
> cross-platform. Sorry, I can't recall exact details.
>
> I think it's important that whatever format we mandate works with full
> Unicode filenames, and the available user tools support that.
>
> Paul
> _______________________________________________
> Distutils-SIG maillist  -  Distutils-SIG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/attachments/20160821/e40d00aa/attachment.html>