Great to see this release. I look forward to trying it out and finally moving over to Python 3.
Laurence. On 5 October 2015 at 01:51, Martin Zibricky <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > on behalf of the PyInstaller development team I'm happy to announce > PyInstaller 3.0 after two years of development. > > http://www.pyinstaller.org > > Special thanks to David Vierra, David Cortesi and Cecil Curry who > dedicated a > lot of time to this release. > > We are also thankful for all contributions from other people. > > > === What it is === > > PyInstaller bundles a Python application and all its dependencies into a > single package. The user can run the packaged app without installing a > Python > interpreter or any modules. > > PyInstaller reads a Python script written by you. It analyzes your code to > discover every other module and library your script needs in order to > execute. > Then it collects copies of all those files – including the active Python > interpreter! – and puts them with your script in a single folder, or > optionally in a single executable file. > > PyInstaller is tested against Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. However, it is > not > a cross-compiler: to make a Windows app you run PyInstaller in Windows; to > make a Linux app you run it in Linux, etc. PyInstaller has been used > successfully with AIX, Solaris, and FreeBSD, but is not tested against > them. > > > === Changes === > > Major changes for this release are: > > - Python 3 support (3.3 / 3.4 / 3.5). > - Remove support for Python 2.6 and lower. > - Full unicode support in the bootloader (#824, #1224, #1323, #1340, #1396) > - (OSX) Executables built with PyInstaller under OS X can now be digitally > signed. > - (OSX) 32bit precompiled bootloader no longer distributed, only 64bit. > - (Windows) for 32bit bootloader enable flag LARGEADDRESSAWARE that allows > to use 4GB of RAM. > - New hooks: amazon-product-api, appy, certifi, countrycode, cryptography, > gi, > httplib2, jsonschema, keyring, lensfunpy, mpl_toolkits.basemap, ncclient, > netCDF4, OpenCV, osgeo, patsy, PsychoPy, pycountry, pycparser, > PyExcelerate, > PyGobject, pymssql, PyNaCl, PySiDe.QtCore, PySide.QtGui, rawpy, requests, > scapy, scipy, six, SpeechRecognition, u1db, weasyprint, Xlib. > - Add support for automatically including data files from eggs. > - Add support for directory eggs support. > - Add support for all kind of namespace packages. > - Add support for ``pkgutil.extend_path()``. > - New option ``--key`` to obfuscate the Python bytecode. > > The full changelog for this release can be found at: > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyInstaller/3.0 > > > === Feedback === > > We're eager to listen to your feedback on using PyInstaller: > > Bug tracker: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues > Mailing list: 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
