We've tried this before, but apparently people were cross-compiling. I'd suggest not removing them any faster than whatever deprecation applies to the module on all platforms (which should still be as quickly as possible :-) ). Cheers, Steve On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 5:26 PM +0200, "Victor Stinner" wrote: Hi, I modified Makefile.pre.in to avoid installing wininst-*.exe files, since these files are only useful on Windows: the distutils bdist_wininst command only works on Windows. https://bugs.python.org/issue37468 I made the assumption that "make install" is only used on Unix, not on Windows. I never tried to build Python in Cygwin or MinGW on Windows. If someone knows these platforms, and consider that wininst-*.exe should still be installed on these platforms, please propose a pull request for bpo-37468. By the way, bdist_wininst is now deprecated in Python 3.8: wheel packages are now preferred. https://bugs.python.org/issue37481 Victor -- Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-leave@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/53T647PT...