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Doc: obsolete reference to MSI packages #115872

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partev opened this issue Feb 24, 2024 · 1 comment
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Doc: obsolete reference to MSI packages #115872

partev opened this issue Feb 24, 2024 · 1 comment
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partev commented Feb 24, 2024

https://docs.python.org/3.13/using/windows.html page refers to "MSI packages" in the following sentence:
To make Python available, the CPython team has compiled Windows installers (MSI packages) with every release for many years.

However, MSI packages have been replaced regular Windows installer since python-3.5; for example see here:
https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.5.html
Windows improvements:

  • A new installer for Windows has replaced the old MSI.

because of this the reference for MSI packages should be removed from documentation here: https://docs.python.org/3.13/using/windows.html

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I grepped Doc/*.rst and there are no other MSI references. (There are some .*MSI.* words line MSIE (explorer).) So unless there are MSIs hiding in comments or docstrings, which I think is pretty unlikely and not so visible to user if there are, this issue is truly done.

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