<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Sorry for the late reply, just saw these.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The size difference is due to "setup.py dist" including documentation build artifacts in the source-tarball. So I believe rc1 is so much smaller because the "make sure docs build" part of the release checklist wasn't followed (or was followed in a different clone) and so those build-artifacts aren't in it. The procedure going forward will produce the source tarballs from a clean clone. This procedure was followed for the actual 1.16.0 release.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Going forward, only a single source archive will be produced, in .tar.gz format as well as the wheel.<br></div><div>(I figure .gz is better as I believe it has wider support than .bz2 even if the compression isn't quite as good).<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>We are hoping to automate more of the release process, so ideally this becomes even more consistent in the future.<br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>thanks,<br></div><div>meejah<br></div></body></html>