> On Aug 23, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Steve Dower <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 mean, we have data that suggests that people do *not* prefer to use them since 90% of the downloads for those files are mirrors just mirroring them and 7% is just setuptools tearing the .exe apart to treat it similarly to an .egg (for wininst, for msi it’s like 97% mirroring and only like 400 of them uploaded ever anyways). > > 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 — Donald Stufft _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
