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Installer Release 5

Contents:

• Changes
• Downloads
• Sponsoring
• License
• Reporting Bugs

[June 4, 2003] Bug fix release (5b5_4) of Installer.

Changes in 5b5:
   Bug fixes in 5b5_4:

• Fix to Windows --onefile support (extension modules in packages).
• Fix to hooks for new versions of pywintypes and pythoncom.

   Bug fixes in 5b5_3 (May 29):

• Fix to Windows --onefile support.
• Fix to code caching upx'd binaries.
• Minor fix to finding Tcl/Tk.

[May 19, 2003] New release (5b5) of Installer verion 5.

   Bug fixes:

• Works with Python 2.3
• A --onefile always uses a temporary directory (no conflicts between multiple copies)
• A --onefile cleans up under any but the most extreme circumstances
• reload works properly

• Can UPX your executables (and DLLs on Windows), if installed.
• Improved COM Server support from Mark Hammond.

Changes in 5b4:
   Bug fixes:

• recompile if .py file in a package is newer
• fix segfault on Linux / Unix if executable is on the $PATH
• fix segfault / access violation on very long script names
• now works on cygwin (modulo some startup warnings that I haven't been able to get rid of)
• other minor bug fixes

• works with .pyw files (or any file extension, including none)
• add --strip option to run the executable and shared libs through strip.

Changes in 5b3.1:
  Fix exceptions bypassing release of import lock.

Changes in 5b3:
   Bug fixes:

• import lock added to iu.py
• reload works in iu.py
• can build with .pyo's
• can run with optimizied flag on
• fixed buffer overflow when using very long script names
• last reference to strop gone

Changes in 5b2:
   Bug fixes:

• Linux: works as Apache CGI (searches for itself in the current working directory, which Apache sets).
• Windows: --onefile executable works in root directory of a drive.

Changes in 5b1:
   Enhancements:

• ability to exclude from analysis
• by default, include encodings (turn off with --ascii)

• alignment issue on RISC machines
• account for dependencies of statically linked extensions
• no longer chokes on scripts not ending in newline
• no longer chokes on bad bytecode
• fix bug that prevented Trees from auto-building
• fix bug in finding binary dependencies on *nix

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License

This code is licensed under the MIT license. Please see license.txt. Note that I do not consider that Installer includes significant portions of itself in the executables it produces, so I make no restrictions on their licensing.

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