[issue39586] Deprecate bdist_msi: use bdist_wheel instead

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <vstinner at python.org> added the comment:

Steve Dower who knows well Windows installer discourage users to use MSI:
https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-distutils-bdist-wininst-command/3115/14

Other pip developers want to get ride of everything but sdist and bdist_wheel formats:
https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-distutils-bdist-wininst-command/3115/14

So let's deprecated bdist_msi. If someone comes with a use case which justify to keep the feature, it would be trivial to revert the deprecation.

Thanks Hugo van Kemenade ;-)

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resolution:  -> fixed
stage: patch review -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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