Has there been any discussion about creating a “_buildtools” private package for use by setuptools and the core build? This would include build capabilities that are specific to an implementation of Python, such as building extension modules.
I opened Deprecate bdist_dumb, bdist_rpm, bdist_dmg, bdist_msi, bdist_wininst · Issue #1988 · pypa/setuptools · GitHub for this.
Good. bdist_msi is now deprecated as well: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/29b3fc0a18f105de666fdd586b537f34e349766d
It’s just a deprecation. We can discuss in Python 3.10 or later if it’s time to really remove the code.
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