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authorHugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>2020-02-10 13:26:40 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-02-10 13:26:40 (GMT)
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bpo-39586: Deprecate distutils bdist_msi command (GH-18415)
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-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/apiref.rst3
-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst9
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diff --git a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
index 12e0c0b..b14197c 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
@@ -1855,6 +1855,9 @@ Subclasses of :class:`Command` must define the following methods.
.. class:: bdist_msi
+.. deprecated:: 3.9
+ Use bdist_wheel (wheel packages) instead.
+
Builds a `Windows Installer`_ (.msi) binary package.
.. _Windows Installer: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc185688(VS.85).aspx
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
index b814f2e..e032c03 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ generated by each, are:
.. note::
bdist_wininst is deprecated since Python 3.8.
+.. note::
+ bdist_msi is deprecated since Python 3.9.
+
The following sections give details on the individual :command:`bdist_\*`
commands.
@@ -304,6 +307,9 @@ Creating Windows Installers
.. warning::
bdist_wininst is deprecated since Python 3.8.
+.. warning::
+ bdist_msi is deprecated since Python 3.9.
+
Executable installers are the natural format for binary distributions on
Windows. They display a nice graphical user interface, display some information
about the module distribution to be installed taken from the metadata in the
@@ -468,3 +474,6 @@ installed for all users) and 'force' (meaning always prompt for elevation).
.. note::
bdist_wininst is deprecated since Python 3.8.
+
+.. note::
+ bdist_msi is deprecated since Python 3.9.