Primarily for non-windows platforms, but I also think for Windows users without any compilers or similar tools installed. There is also some discussion of removing some of the older toolchain-specific versions (leaving only -14), but that is a subject for another day.
Also I am not sure that bug report applies to 3.5/3.6/3.7. Thanks, Van On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:26 AM Petr Viktorin <encu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/18/18 4:40 PM, Zachary Ware wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:09 AM VanL <van.lindb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I am looking into an issue associated with the wininst-*.exe files in > the distutils/command subdirectory. It looks like these are the executable > stubs used to create self-extracting zips for installation - but I am not > 100% sure. It also looks like they include the calls to standard Windows > functions to display the installer window. > >> > >> I have a couple questions I need help with: > >> 1) Am I correct about the function, and if not, what are they? > > > > You are correct. IIUC, they are checked in to allow creating those > > installers from non-Windows platforms. > > Is that the only reason for them? > At least on Linux, bdist_wininst does not work since at least Python > 3.2, as it tries to use a Windows-only encoding internally. > https://bugs.python.org/issue10945 > > If they're only there for non-Windows platforms, they're useless. > > >> 2) Where did these come from, and where is their source code? > > > > Source can be found here: > > https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/master/PC/bdist_wininst > > > > The individual checked-in .exe files were each originally built by > > whoever updated the Windows toolchain to a new version of MSVC > > (Christian Heimes, Brian Curtin, or Steve Dower; though the oldest > > ones were added by Thomas Heller, presumably using whatever the > > current toolchain(s) was (were) at the time). A few of them have been > > rebuilt after bug fixes in the source since they were added, mostly by > > the same people, though I also see Mark Hammond and Raymond Hettinger > > in the history (and Georg Brandl via svnmerge). I notice that there > > are a few very minor code cleanups (the three latest commits here > > > https://github.com/python/cpython/commits/master/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c > ) > > that have not made it into a rebuilt exe yet. > > > > FTR, we really ought to remove all but the 14.0 version from the > > master branch. We don't support building Python with any toolchain > > older than 14.0 anymore, and the older toolchains are nigh impossible > > to find anymore anyway. > >
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