[issue10945] bdist_wininst depends on MBCS codec, unavailable on non-Windows

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> Do we need to keep backward compatibility if we change the format of the config 
> data? Or wininst-xx.exe are only usable with trailing config data in the .exe 
> file?

The wininst.exe belongs to the version of distutils it is released with.
So if we change both consistently, no backwards-compatibility problems
arise.

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title: bdist_wininst depends on MBCS codec, unavailable on non-Windows -> bdist_wininst depends on MBCS codec,	unavailable on non-Windows

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