New submission from STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org>:
The distutils bdist_wininst has been deprecated in Python 3.8 by bpo-37481 in favor of bdist_wheel. See "Deprecate bdist_wininst" discussion: https://discuss.python.org/t/deprecate-bdist-wininst/1929 I now propose to remove it from the Python code base to ease the Python maintenance. One of the project project which used .exe Windows installer was Pillow, but this project doesn't publish .exe installers since Pillow 6.2.0 (October 2019): * "No more deprecated bdist_wininst .exe installers #4029 [hugovk]" * https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/4029 Attached PR removes bdist_wininst: use bdist_whell instead. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 361290 nosy: vstinner priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: distutils: Remove bdist_wininst (Windows .exe installers) in favor of bdist_wheel (.whl) versions: Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39541> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
