[issue39541] distutils: Remove bdist_wininst (Windows .exe installers) in favor of bdist_wheel (.whl)
Paul Ganssle
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Mon Feb 3 09:24:21 EST 2020
Paul Ganssle <p.ganssle at gmail.com> added the comment:
Per my reasoning in the discourse thread, I disagree with this move. I think that this should be handled in setuptools, which is where we tend to handle breaking changes or even enhancements to distutils.
If we do this in setuptools, we'll get a backport of the deprecation and removal back to 3.5, and it will make it easier to maintain setuptools.
The deprecation of bdist_wininst in Python 3.8 already made it harder to maintain setuptools with no real benefit to the CPython project, I would prefer to not repeat this mistake.
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