bpo-10945: Drop support for bdist_wininst on non-Windows systems (GH-… · python/cpython@45c10da (original) (raw)

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@@ -313,8 +313,8 @@ or the :command:`bdist` command with the :option:`!--formats` option::
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314	314	If you have a pure module distribution (only containing pure Python modules and
315	315	packages), the resulting installer will be version independent and have a name
316		-like :file:`foo-1.0.win32.exe`. These installers can even be created on Unix
317		-platforms or Mac OS X.
	316	+like :file:`foo-1.0.win32.exe`. Note that creating ``wininst`` binary
	317	+distributions in only supported on Windows systems.
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319	319	If you have a non-pure distribution, the extensions can only be created on a
320	320	Windows platform, and will be Python version dependent. The installer filename

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@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ class bdist_wininst(Command):
55	55	boolean_options = ['keep-temp', 'no-target-compile', 'no-target-optimize',
56	56	'skip-build']
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	58	+# bpo-10945: bdist_wininst requires mbcs encoding only available on Windows
	59	+_unsupported = (sys.platform != "win32")
	60	+
58	61	def initialize_options(self):
59	62	self.bdist_dir = None
60	63	self.plat_name = None

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	1	+Officially drop support for creating bdist_wininst installers on non-Windows
	2	+systems.