**py2exe 0.5.2** released ========================= py2exe is a Python distutils extension which converts python scripts into executable windows programs, able to run without requiring a python installation. Console and Windows (GUI) applications, windows NT services, exe and dll COM servers are supported. This is a bugfix release. * Print a message explaining what's going on whan a service exe is started from the command line. * py2exe did build invalid version resources, they didn't show up correctly on Win98 at least. Patch by Roger Upole. * Fix a buffer overflow in the C code. Patch by Ralf Sieger, closes bug item #893310 * py2exe now (again) has a builtin list of dlls which should never be distributed * Patch sys.winver in the distributed pythonXY.dll, so that there is no possibility of conflicts with existing distributions and the registry keys found there. Patch by Mark Hammond. * Fix several problems when an exception in a 'windows' exe occurs. * Include a workaround for unbounded recursion in modulefinder when Jason Jorendorff's path module is installed See also http://python.org/sf/876278 * Fix problems when package_dir is set in the setup script, see http://tinyurl.com/yuc5l * py2exe can now be built from the sources with mingw32 * py2exe does now handle precompile .pyo and .pyc files (patch by Shane Holloway) * Fix a problem when the exe's directory contains single quotes * Register service dependencies when installing a service * Return an exit code of 255 from the exe when there's an uncatched exception running the main script. * Print a warning instead of failing to build with weird version numbers. Suggested by Cory Dodt. Homepage: <http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe> Download from the usual location: <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15583> Enjoy, Thomas