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| author | Miro Hrončok <miro@hroncok.cz> | 2019-07-01 12:12:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com> | 2019-07-01 12:12:40 (GMT) |
| commit | 72cd653c4ed7a4f8f8fb06ac364b08a97085a2b5 (patch) | |
| tree | 15bb7d14ad75eae8d2dc548b488b192cf3b23160 /Doc | |
| parent | 84de34e39eb9e49b2ae691c6f67df8d7da3561de (diff) | |
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bpo-10945: Drop support for bdist_wininst on non-Windows systems (GH-14506)
bdist_wininst depends on MBCS codec, unavailable on non-Windows,
and bdist_wininst have not worked since at least Python 3.2, possibly
never on Python 3.
Here we document that bdist_wininst is only supported on Windows,
and we mark it unsupported otherwise to skip tests.
Distributors of Python 3 can now safely drop the bdist_wininst .exe files
without the need to skip bdist_wininst related tests.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst index f44d0d0..8c65d9d 100644 --- a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst +++ b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst @@ -315,8 +315,8 @@ or the :command:`bdist` command with the :option:`!--formats` option:: If you have a pure module distribution (only containing pure Python modules and packages), the resulting installer will be version independent and have a name -like :file:`foo-1.0.win32.exe`. These installers can even be created on Unix -platforms or Mac OS X. +like :file:`foo-1.0.win32.exe`. Note that creating ``wininst`` binary +distributions in only supported on Windows systems. If you have a non-pure distribution, the extensions can only be created on a Windows platform, and will be Python version dependent. The installer filename |