Added pynsist as a package

[thewchan]

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[conda-forge-linter]

Hi! This is the friendly automated conda-forge-linting service.

I just wanted to let you know that I linted all conda-recipes in your PR (recipes/pynsist) and found it was in an excellent condition.

[thewchan]

@conda-forge/staged-recipes Tests pass except for win build; it's noarch. But it seems in the win build the wheel/package was successfully build, but not successfully installed in the win environment. Not sure why? Any pointers?

[carterbox]

This package is not actually noarch! It tries to ship pre-compiled DLLs (which is not allowed). I'm not even sure that this package is appropriate for unix because it "Builds Windows installers for Python applications".

[ocefpaf]

This package is not actually noarch! It tries to ship pre-compiled DLLs (which is not allowed). I'm not even sure that this package is appropriate for unix because it "Builds Windows installers for Python applications".

It should be Windows noarch only, we can do that now, see conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io#1839.

Also, while I don't like the idea of shipping DLLs, this does seem to be the recommended way in this particular case. See the discussion in:

takluyver/pynsist#84
takluyver/pynsist#87
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/introducing-the-universal-crt/

[stale]

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[stale]

Hi again! About a month ago, we commented on this PR saying it would be closed in another month if it was still inactive. It has been a month and so now it is being closed. Thank you so much for making it in the first place and contributing to the community project that is conda-forge. If you'd like to reopen this PR, please feel free to do so at any time!

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