On 23Aug2016 0937, Brett Cannon wrote:
I should also mention I have never come across anyone at Microsoft use
the bdist_msi or bdist_winst installers (I've added Steve to this email
in case my experience is wrong).
In large part this is because I've gotten to them first :)
Personally I don't like bdist_msi or bdist_winst as neither of them
correctly sets dependencies on the underlying Python install, so
removing Python does not remove the package. But I can see why people
may prefer to use them.
I see no harm in not installing them via pip though. They should be
downloadable "associated files" at minimum, and I don't have any opinion
about making them available via index data (except that installers
should be free to ignore them).
Cheers,
Steve
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