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Author	eric.araujo
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, eric.araujo, loewis, runtux, tarek, techtonik, vstinner
Date	2012-03-13.11:50:52
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The proposition of using other C functions and changing the bdist_wininst code looks risky to me, especially as I don’t know how compatibility would be affected (see my previous message). We are free to improve the wininst code in distutils2, or discuss a replacement (Jeremy Kloth was working on something with all the features of MSI and wininst), but for distutils I would very much prefer the simplest fix that could possibly works. bdist_msi decodes data read from setup.py with MBCS on Windows; on other OSes, couldn’t the locale preferred encoding be used?

The proposition of using other C functions and changing the bdist_wininst code looks risky to me, especially as I don’t know how compatibility would be affected (see my previous message).  We are free to improve the wininst code in distutils2, or discuss a replacement (Jeremy Kloth was working on something with all the features of MSI and wininst), but for distutils I would very much prefer the simplest fix that could possibly works.

bdist_msi decodes data read from setup.py with MBCS on Windows; on other OSes, couldn’t the locale preferred encoding be used?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-03-13 11:50:53	eric.araujo	set	recipients: + eric.araujo, loewis, amaury.forgeotdarc, vstinner, techtonik, tarek, runtux
2012-03-13 11:50:53	eric.araujo	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2012-03-13 11:50:53	eric.araujo	link	issue10945 messages
2012-03-13 11:50:52	eric.araujo	create