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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index 49e8ed8..28f9d9f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -306,6 +306,16 @@ directives ``%G``, ``%u`` and ``%V``. (Contributed by Ashley Anderson in :issue:`12006`.) +distutils.command.sdist +----------------------- + +The ``default_format`` attribute has been removed from +:class:`distutils.command.sdist.sdist` and the ``formats`` +attribute defaults to ``['gztar']``. Although not anticipated, +Any code relying on the presence of ``default_format`` may +need to be adapted. See :issue:`27819` for more details. + + faulthandler ------------ @@ -821,6 +831,19 @@ Changes in the Python API accepting additional keyword arguments will need to adjust their calls to :meth:`type.__new__` (whether direct or via :class:`super`) accordingly. +* In :class:`distutils.command.sdist.sdist`, the ``default_format`` + attribute has been removed and is no longer honored. Instead, the + gzipped tarfile format is the default on all platforms and no + platform-specific selection is made. + In environments where distributions are + built on Windows and zip distributions are required, configure + the project with a ``setup.cfg`` file containing the following:: + + [sdist] + formats=zip + + This behavior has also been backported to earlier Python versions + by Setuptools 26.0.0. Changes in the C API -------------------- |