Mark writes in private email:
"Modules listed in the registry was a dumb idea. This whole scheme
can die. AFAIK, no one in the world uses it (including win32all
since the last build)."
(See also SF #643711)
per PEP 291 (although there are currently string methods used).
This patch makes it compatible with 2.2, at least, by detecting
universal newline support.
(with one small bugfix in bgen/bgen/scantools.py)
This replaces string module functions with string methods
for the stuff in the Tools directory. Several uses of
string.letters etc. are still remaining.
(With slight cosmetic improvements to shorten lines and a grammar fix
to a docstring.)
This addes -X and -E options to freeze. From the docstring:
-X module Like -x, except the module can never be imported by
the frozen binary.
-E: Freeze will fail if any modules can't be found (that
were not excluded using -x or -X).
This patch was developed primarily to reduce the size of the
frozen binary. It is particularly useful when freezing for 'small'
platforms, such as Palm OS, where you really want to save that
last miserable byte.
A limitation of this patch is that it does not provide any feedback
about the replacements being made. As the path matching
is case-sensitive this may lead to unexpected behaviour for DOS
and Windows people, eg
> freeze.py -r C:\Python\Lib\=py\ goats.py
should probably be:
> freeze.py -r c:\python\lib\=py\ goats.py
comments, docstrings or error messages. I fixed two minor things in
test_winreg.py ("didn't" -> "Didn't" and "Didnt" -> "Didn't").
There is a minor style issue involved: Guido seems to have preferred English
grammar (behaviour, honour) in a couple places. This patch changes that to
American, which is the more prominent style in the source. I prefer English
myself, so if English is preferred, I'd be happy to supply a patch myself ;)
"""
When there are additional Setup files, specified by -e option of freeze,
checkextenstions.py assumes that *.o, *.a, -Lpath, and -Rpath are all
relative to where the Setup file is. select() inserts the path to the
Setup file to make them absolute. However, the assumption is not true.
There are cases that absolute paths are specified for them. The inserted
prefix, by select(), results in error.
The following fix check for absolute paths. The assumption is: an
absolute path begins with either '/' or '$'. In the latter case, it is
from the environmental variable. (Variables defined locally in the Setup
file have already been handled by expandvars())
"""
My version of the patch has been verified by Charles Waldman (a
colleague of Chih-Hao).
Ezio Melotti
Georg Brandl
Martin v. Löwis
Tim Peters
Gustavo Niemeyer
Walter Dörwald
Just van Rossum
Thomas Heller
Neal Norwitz
Mark Hammond
Marc-André Lemburg
Guido van Rossum
Neil Schemenauer
Eric S. Raymond
Peter Schneider-Kamp
Thomas Wouters
Fred Drake