[eGenix.com] ANN: eGenix PyRun - One file Python Runtime 1.1.0

Thu Sep 27 10:23:50 CEST 2012

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ANNOUNCING

                 eGenix PyRun - One file Python Runtime

                             Version 1.1.0

          An easy-to-use single file relocatable Python run-time -
            available for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix platforms

This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading:
http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-PyRun-1.1.0.html

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INTRODUCTION

Our new eGenix PyRun combines a Python interpreter with an almost
complete Python standard library into a single easy-to-use executable,
that does not require a system wide installation and is fully
relocatable.

eGenix PyRun's executable only needs 11MB, but still supports most
Python application and scripts - and it can be further compressed to
3-4MB using gzexe or upx.

Compared to a regular Python installation of typically 100MB on disk,
this makes eGenix PyRun ideal for applications and scripts that need
to be distributed to many target machines, client installations or
customers.

It makes "installing" Python on a Unix based system as simple as
copying a single file.

We have been using the product internally in our mxODBC Connect Server
since 2008 with great success and have now extracted it into a
stand-alone open-source product.

We provide both the source archive to build your own eGenix PyRun, as
well as pre-compiled binaries for Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X, as 32-
and 64-bit versions.

Please see the product page for more details:

    http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/

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NEWS

This is a new minor release of eGenix PyRun, which contains a few
important fixes and enhancement based on the user feedback we
received.

Simplified Installation
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The new release includes a new script called install-pyrun, which
greatly simplifies installation of eGenix PyRun, which works much like
the virtualenv shell script used for creating new virtual environments
(except that there's nothing virtual about PyRun environments :-)).

Using the script, the eGenix PyRun installation is as simple as
running:

    install-pyrun targetdir

New Features
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 * Added new simple end-to-end test for the PyRun build process: make
   test-distribution.

 * Added support to import top-level frozen modules via -m. For
   packages this still fails due to bugs in Python itself.

 * Added a new easy to use pyrun installation shell script:
   install-pyrun.

 * install-pyrun will now default to eGenix PyRun 1.1.0.

 * install-pyrun now has a new --pyrun-distribution option to manually
   direct the script to a distribution file. This comes in handy when
   testing your own eGenix PyRun distributions.

Enhanced Integration
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 * Optional readline module included in our binary builds now links
   against readline version 6 instead of 5. This should resolve
   readline issues on modern Linux installations.

 * Resolved an issue related to sys.argv[0] that prevented
   installation of e.g. numpy and lxml with pyrun. We've tested PyRun
   installation with numpy, lxml, Cython, Django, Trac and several
   other popular packages. They should all install fine now.

 * PyRun now reads scripts from stdin when used as filter or when
   providing '-' as script name.

Other Changes
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 * Documented that setuptools/distribute and pip are not designed to
   be relocatable - unlike PyRun itself.

 * Most references to the pyrun build directory are now replaced with
   "<pyrun>". This reduces the pyrun binary size and also avoids
   confusion when looking at tracebacks.

 * Backported a patch to have Python 2.5 compile on systems that have
   a more recent version of svnversion installed.

 * Overall, we've managed to push the size down from 12MB in 1.0.0 to
   11MB in this new release.

Thanks go to Pavlos Christoforou for providing lots of good feedback,
which triggered many of the above enhancements.

Presentation at PyCon UK 2012
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Marc-André, CEO of eGenix, will be giving a presentation about eGenix
PyRun at PyCon UK 2012 in Coventry, UK on Saturday, Sept 29th in the
Room Python/CC1.8.

He will also be available during the conference to answer questions.

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DOWNLOADS

The download archives and instructions for installing the product can
be found at:

    http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/

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SUPPORT

Commercial support for these packages is available from eGenix.com.
Please see

    http://www.egenix.com/services/support/

for details about our support offerings.

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MORE INFORMATION

For more information about eGenix PyRun, licensing and download
instructions, please visit our web-site or write to
sales at egenix.com.

Enjoy,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

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