Version 5.0.1 (January 2017)
* Added support for Python 3.6.
* Corrected hooks for the pythoncom and pywintypes modules.
* Use realpath() to get the absolute path of the executable; this resolves
symbolic links and ensures that changing the path before all imports are
complete does not result in the executable being unable to find modules.
Version 5.0 (November 2016)
* Added support for Python 3.5.
* Switched from using C compiled frozen modules which embed part of the
standard library to using the default named zip file and library file
locations. This eliminates the need to recompile cx_Freeze for each new
Python version as no parts of the standard library are included in the
installation now. This also implies that appending a zip file to the
executable is no longer supported since the standard name and location
are used.
* Removed unnecessary options and parameters from cx_Freeze.
* Added support for Win32Service base with Python 3.x.
* Add __version__ as an alias to version.
* Updated hooks for PyQt, h5py.
* Reallow including modules with non-identifier names.
* Fix –add-to-path writing to the per-user instead of system environment
* Do not import excluded submodules.
* Add pyzmq hook
* Add copyright and trademarks to version information
* Fix compilation on Ubuntu
* Set defaults in class directly, rather than as defaults in the function
signature.
* Added support for storing packages in the file system instead of in the
zip file. There are a number of packages that assume that they are found
in the file system and if found in a zip file instead produce strange
errors.
* Significantly simplified startup code.
* Added logging statements for improved debugging.
* Updated samples to handle recent updates to packages.
* Avoid infinite loop for deferred imports which are cycles of one another.
Version 4.3.4 (December 2014)
* Rebuilt for Python 3.4.2. Dropped support for Python versions less than 2.6.
* Correct stale comment.
* Fix processing path specs from config when targets are not explicit.
* Tweaks to improve compiling with MSVC 10 (2010) on Windows.
* Added support for using the –deep and –resource-rules options when code
signing through cx_Freeze on OS X.
* Catch error if GetDependentFiles() is called on a non-library
* Added FAQ entry on single file executables
* Only look one level deep for implicit relative imports
* Removed statement that was filtering out the ntpath module.
Version 4.3.3 (May 2014)
* Added support for release version of 3.4
* Added support for code signing in bdist_mac
* Added custom Info.plist and Framework suport to bdist_mac
* Added support for resolving dependencies on OS X where paths are relative
* Added hook for QtWebKit module
* Added support for finding packages inside zip files
* Ensure that syntax errors in code do not prevent freezing from taking
place but simply ignore those modules
* Init scripts now use code that works in both Python 2 and 3
* Simplify service sample
* Fix documentation for bdist_dmg
* All options that accept multiple values are split on commas as documented
Version 4.3.2 (October 2013)
* Added support for Python 3.4.
* Added hooks for PyQt4, PyQt5 and PySide to handle their plugins.
* Added support for creating a shortcut/alias to the Applications directory
within distributed DMG files for OS X.
* Improve missing modules output.
* Avoid polluting the extension module namespace when using the bootstrap
module to load the extension.
* Added support for using setuptools and pip if such tools are available.
* Added first tests; nose and mock are required to run them.
* Remove –bundle-iconfile in favor of –iconfile as a more generic method of
including the icon for bdist_mac.
* Documentation improved and FAQ added.
* Converted samples to follow PEP 8.
Version 4.3.1 (November 2012)
* Added support for the final release of Python 3.3.
* Added support for copying the MSVC runtime DLLs and manifest if desired
by using the –include-msvcr switch.
* Clarified the documentation on the –replace-paths option.
Version 4.3 (July 2012)
* Added options to build Mac OS X application bundles and DMG packages
using bdist_mac and bdist_dmg distutils commands.
* The documentation is now using Sphinx, and is available on ReadTheDocs.org.
* Added support for Python 3.3 which uses a different compiled file format
than earlier versions of Python.
* Added support for Windows services which start automatically and which are
capable of monitoring changes in sessions such as lock and unlock.
* New cxfreeze-quickstart wizard to create a basic setup.py file. Initially
written by Thomas Kluyver.
* Included files under their original name can now be passed to include_files
as a tuple with an empty second element.
* File inclusions/exclusions can now be specified using a full path, or a
shared library name with a version number suffix.
either because they themselves are not ready or because a
dependency isn't. This is annotated by
PYTHON_VERSIONS_INCOMPATIBLE= 33 # not yet ported as of x.y.z
or
PYTHON_VERSIONS_INCOMPATIBLE= 33 # py-foo, py-bar
respectively, please use the same style for other packages,
and check during updates.
Use versioned_dependencies.mk where applicable.
Use REPLACE_PYTHON instead of handcoded alternatives, where applicable.
Reorder Makefile sections into standard order, where applicable.
Remove PYTHON_VERSIONS_INCLUDE_3X lines since that will be default
with the next commit.
Whitespace cleanups and other nits corrected, where necessary.
While here,
* register egg-info.
* add patch to enable rpath, custom post-build should not be required anymore.
Changes from 4.2.2 to 4.2.3
1) Added support for Python 3.2.
2) Added hook for datetime module which implicitly imports the time module.
3) Fixed hook for tkinter in Python 3.x.
4) Always include the zlib module since the zipimport module requires it,
even when compression is not taking place.
5) Added sample for a tkinter application.
executable of a Python script, from Helge Muehlmeier per pkgsrc-wip
This pkg abuses Python distutils in a non-portable way, so I've
added a hack which relinks the startup code behind setuptools'
back. This is easier than patching the setup.py script into doing trt.
