Always distribute sdist packages as gztar.

[jaraco]

BPO	27819
Nosy	@jaraco, @ncoghlan, @merwok, @dstufft

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[jaraco]

Per pypa/setuptools#748 (comment), distutils should by default produce gztar formats on all platforms.

[python-dev]

New changeset 8d09ec0ee934 by Jason R. Coombs in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-27819: Simply default to gztar for sdist formats by default on all platforms.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8d09ec0ee934

[ncoghlan]

This one would be worth a note in What's New as well - both in the "changed modules" section under distutils, and in the "Porting to Python 3.6" section

While it doesn't affect Python code per se, it may affect folks doing Windows-specific workflow automation, where they'll either need to configure the use of "zip" explicitly, or else adjust their other tools to handle .tar.gz inputs.

[jaraco]

Good suggestions.

[python-dev]

New changeset ed9cabce9c38 by Jason R. Coombs in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-27819: Add more detail in What's New in 3.6.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ed9cabce9c38