[issue5095] msi missing from "bdist --help-formats"

[John Machin]

John Machin <sjmachin at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

The 2.6.1 documentation consists of a *single* line:
"distutils.command.bdist_msi — Build a Microsoft Installer binary
package". AFAICT this is the *only* mention of "msi" in the docs
(outside the msilib module). I heard about it only by word-of-mouth.
Docs should explain why a packager might want to use it instead of
wininst, and why the output msi is specific to the creating version of
python.

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nosy: +sjmachin

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