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Author	vstinner
Recipients	dstufft, eric.araujo, hugovk, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, vstinner, zach.ware
Date	2020-02-10.13:30:02
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Message-id	<1581341402.31.0.398509669391.issue39586@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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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 ;-)

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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