Remove Windows artifacts with the -shared suffix (#554)

These are purely duplicative and were retained for a transition period.

Author: zanieb

cpython-windows/build.py

@@ -1801,22 +1801,12 @@ def main() -> None:
             release_tag = release_tag_from_git()
 
         # Create, e.g., `cpython-3.10.13+20240224-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc-pgo.tar.zst`.
-        dest_path = compress_python_archive(
+        compress_python_archive(
             tar_path,
             DIST,
             "%s-%s" % (tar_path.stem, release_tag),
         )
 
-        # Copy to, e.g., `cpython-3.10.13+20240224-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc-shared-pgo.tar.zst`.
-        # The 'shared-' prefix is no longer needed, but we're double-publishing under
-        # both names during the transition period.
-        filename: str = dest_path.name
-        if not filename.endswith("-%s-%s.tar.zst" % (args.options, release_tag)):
-            raise ValueError("expected filename to end with profile: %s" % filename)
-        filename = filename.removesuffix("-%s-%s.tar.zst" % (args.options, release_tag))
-        filename = filename + "-shared-%s-%s.tar.zst" % (args.options, release_tag)
-        shutil.copy2(dest_path, dest_path.with_name(filename))
-
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     sys.exit(main())

docs/running.rst

@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ familiar with LLVM target triples, here is an overview:
    Python and extensions. These builds behave like the official Python
    for Windows distributions.
 
+   These builds are now published without the `-shared` suffix.
+
 ``*-windows-msvc-static``
    These builds of Python are statically linked.
 
@@ -57,6 +59,8 @@ familiar with LLVM target triples, here is an overview:
 
    See :ref:`quirk_windows_static_distributions` for more.
 
+   These builds are no longer published.
+
 ``x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu``
    Linux 64-bit Intel/AMD CPUs linking against GNU libc.
 

src/release.rs

@@ -130,33 +130,6 @@ pub static RELEASE_TRIPLES: Lazy<BTreeMap<&'static str, TripleRelease>> = Lazy::
         },
     );
 
-    // The 'shared-' prefix is no longer needed, but we're double-publishing under both names during
-    // the transition period.
-    h.insert(
-        "i686-pc-windows-msvc-shared",
-        TripleRelease {
-            suffixes: vec!["pgo"],
-            install_only_suffix: "pgo",
-            python_version_requirement: None,
-            conditional_suffixes: vec![ConditionalSuffixes {
-                python_version_requirement: VersionSpecifier::from_str(">=3.13").unwrap(),
-                suffixes: vec!["freethreaded+pgo"],
-            }],
-        },
-    );
-    h.insert(
-        "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc-shared",
-        TripleRelease {
-            suffixes: vec!["pgo"],
-            install_only_suffix: "pgo",
-            python_version_requirement: None,
-            conditional_suffixes: vec![ConditionalSuffixes {
-                python_version_requirement: VersionSpecifier::from_str(">=3.13").unwrap(),
-                suffixes: vec!["freethreaded+pgo"],
-            }],
-        },
-    );
-
     // Linux.
     let linux_suffixes_pgo = vec!["debug", "pgo+lto"];
     let linux_suffixes_nopgo = vec!["debug", "lto", "noopt"];