Michael Foord <mich...@voidspace.org.uk> added the comment: The point is not for developers who are happy handling .tar.gz but users of the distribution who don't have a way of handling them.
I prefer .tar.gz myself as well but I don't think the default distribution format should be one that isn't natively supported by one of the major platforms that Python runs on. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6296> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com