changeset:   102831:ed9cabce9c38
user:        Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>
date:        Sun Aug 21 16:09:27 2016 -0400
files:       Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
description:
Issue #27819: Add more detail in What's New in 3.6.


diff -r 81af0ab3db97 -r ed9cabce9c38 Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst	Sun Aug 21 12:53:09 2016 -0700
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst	Sun Aug 21 16:09:27 2016 -0400
@@ -306,6 +306,16 @@
 (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 @@
   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
 --------------------