[New-bugs-announce] [issue39541] distutils: Remove bdist_wininst (Windows .exe installers) in favor of bdist_wheel (.whl)

[STINNER Victor]

New submission from STINNER Victor <vstinner at python.org>:

The distutils bdist_wininst has been deprecated in Python 3.8 by bpo-37481 in favor of bdist_wheel.

See "Deprecate bdist_wininst" discussion:
https://discuss.python.org/t/deprecate-bdist-wininst/1929

I now propose to remove it from the Python code base to ease the Python maintenance.

One of the project project which used .exe Windows installer was Pillow, but this project doesn't publish .exe installers since Pillow 6.2.0 (October 2019):

* "No more deprecated bdist_wininst .exe installers #4029 [hugovk]"
* https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/4029

Attached PR removes bdist_wininst: use bdist_whell instead.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 361290
nosy: vstinner
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: distutils: Remove bdist_wininst (Windows .exe installers) in favor of bdist_wheel (.whl)
versions: Python 3.9

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