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+ Support to generate bdist_wininst packages has been removed. As of Python
+ 3.8 and Setuptools 47.2 it's deprecated in favor of just using wheels for
+ Windows platform packaging. See
+ https://discuss.python.org/t/deprecate-bdist-wininst/ and
+ https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-distutils-bdist-wininst-command/ for
+ more details.