Merged revisions 72891 via svnmerge from

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  r72891 | martin.v.loewis | 2009-05-24 21:10:52 +0200 (So, 24 Mai 2009) | 5 lines

  Issue #6065: Do not try to build a version-independent
  installer if the package has extension modules.

  Also add NEWS entry for #5311.
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Lib/distutils/command/bdist_msi.py

@@ -141,6 +141,8 @@ class bdist_msi(Command):
             bdist_base = self.get_finalized_command('bdist').bdist_base
             self.bdist_dir = os.path.join(bdist_base, 'msi')
         short_version = get_python_version()
+        if (not self.target_version) and self.distribution.has_ext_modules():
+            self.target_version = short_version
         if self.target_version:
             self.versions = [self.target_version]
             if not self.skip_build and self.distribution.has_ext_modules()\

Misc/NEWS

@@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ Installation
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
+  specific Python version.
+
 - Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing 
   the right type checkings anymore.