Hello, on behalf of the PyInstaller development team I'm happy to announce PyInstaller 2.1.
http://www.pyinstaller.org[1] Special thanks to Martin Zibricky who did most of the development work for this release. === What it is === PyInstaller is a program that converts (packages) Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and AIX. Its main advantages over similar tools are that PyInstaller works with any version of Python since 2.4, it builds smaller executables thanks to transparent compression, it is fully multi-platform, and use the OS support to load the dynamic libraries, thus ensuring full compatibility. The main goal of PyInstaller is to be compatible with 3rd-party packages out-of-the-box. This means that, with PyInstaller, all the required tricks to make external packages work are already integrated within PyInstaller itself so that there is no user intervention required. You'll never be required to look for tricks in wikis and apply custom modification to your files or your setup scripts. === Changes === Major changes for this release are: + Rewritten manual explaining even very basic topics: http://pythonhosted.org/PyInstaller/ + PyInstaller integration with setuptools (direct installation with easy_install or pip from PYPI - https://pypi.python.org/pypi). After installation there will be available command 'pyinstaller' for PyInstaller usage. + Minimum suported Python version is 2.4. + (Windows) Alter --version-file resource format to allow unicode support. + (Windows) Fix running frozen app from paths containing foreign characters. + (Windows) Fix running PyInstaller from paths containing foreign characters. + Add experimental support for Linux arm. + Add import hooks for PyQt5, IPython, Scipy. + Add option --runtime-hook to allow running custom code from frozen app before loading other Python code. * Python library filename (e.g. python27.dll, libpython2.7.so.1.0, etc) is embedded to the created exe file. Bootloader is not trying several filenames anymore. The full changelog for this release can be found at: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/blob/develop/doc/CHANGES.txt === Feedback === We're eager to listen to your feedback on using PyInstaller: Ticketing system: http://www.pyinstaller.org/newticket[2] Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/PyInstaller[3] -------- [1] http://www.pyinstaller.org [2] http://www.pyinstaller.org/newticket [3] http://groups.google.com/group/PyInstaller -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
