See SF #848614: distutils' msvccompiler now tries to detect that MSVC6 is installed but the registry settings are incomplete because the gui has never been run.
See SF #848614: distutils' msvccompiler now tries to detect that MSVC6
is installed but the registry settings are incomplete because the gui
has never been run.

Already backported to release23-maint.

pypa/setuptools,pypa/setuptools,pypa/setuptools