[issue14877] No option to run bdist_wininst against newer msvc versions on non-windows systems

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

Thanks for the report.  I know little about the wininst code in distutils; can you explain if this is a bug (i.e. bdist_wininst in 2.7 must use wininst-9.0-etc.exe or the installers won’t work) or a feature request (i.e. a new option to allow using newer exe files would provide some new functionality)?  If it’s a bug it can be fixed in 2.7 and 3.2, otherwise it falls under the feature freeze on distutils.

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nosy: +loewis

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