[issue37481] Deprecate bdist_wininst: use bdist_wheel instead

STINNER Victor added the comment: The initial issue has been fixed. Let's continue the discussion in the Packaging forum: https://discuss.python.org/t/deprecate-bdist-wininst/1929 -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.8 __

[issue37481] Deprecate bdist_wininst: use bdist_wheel instead

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset b4cd6ba1a028c2624ac7bc93439b9d45f51cfeba by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-37481: Deprecate distutils bdist_wininst command (GH-14553) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4cd6ba1a028c2624ac7bc93439b9d45f51cfeba -- nosy

[issue37481] Deprecate bdist_wininst: use bdist_wheel instead

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +14412 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14598 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue37481] Deprecate bdist_wininst: use bdist_wheel instead

STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset 1da4462765b084dfa8d869b6cb5855e8f6014a11 by Victor Stinner in branch 'master': bpo-37481: Deprecate distutils bdist_wininst command (GH-14553) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1da4462765b084dfa8d869b6cb5855e8f6014a11 -- __

[issue37481] Deprecate bdist_wininst: use bdist_wheel instead

STINNER Victor added the comment: > So consider me +1 for deprecate in 3.8 (we can still do that, right? it's > just docs and a warning on use) and remove in 3.9 or 3.10 as appropriate. I modified my PR to deprecate the feature in Python 3.8. I'm not sure about scheduling the removal yet, si

[issue37481] Deprecate bdist_wininst: use bdist_wheel instead

Steve Dower added the comment: For the record, I am 100% in favor of deprecating and removing bdist_wininst and bdist_msi from distutils as soon as possible, as they are maintenance burdens and bdist_wininst in particular often attracts AV false positives. setuptools is welcome to either do

[issue37481] Deprecate bdist_wininst: use bdist_wheel instead

Change by STINNER Victor : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +14371 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14553 ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue37481] Deprecate bdist_wininst: use bdist_wheel instead

Change by STINNER Victor : -- title: Deprecate bdist_wininstr: use bdist_wheel instead -> Deprecate bdist_wininst: use bdist_wheel instead ___ Python tracker ___ _