08 February 2019

Nuitka this week #12 

Communication vs. Coding 

Over the holiday season I sort of neglected these postings, but there are other fields, where I have put my focus, but I think these postings are now going to resume.

A quick update in a while in an eternally fluent situation, and not too polished.

Optimization Work 

So, the 0.6.2 optimization work has been not a lot yet. I started some work on int/long C type and it looked good.

So I did this, and it turned out rather long. I continued fixing things and finishing up open things to the point that it now is clean. I hate to be falling behind. I am touching on a few more interesting topics.

Python flag -O and -OO 

Nuitka was supporting -O but doing what should only the done for -OO which I only learned of now. So this is going to be supported both now.

Virtualenv vs. venv 

Accelerated binaries were not running with full sys.path in the virtualenv, because site module uses sys.prefix and that was not propagated,but it now is.

Google Summer of Code for Nuitka 

So the GSoC 2019 page is shaping up, the pull request to list Nuitka on the PSF project pages has been merged. More tweaking will be needed to get into perfect shape, and that has been my main communication time effort.

Finally somebody had stepped up for mentor, which means a lot to me. Now we need to see if students are willing to pick us.

And because I publish this too late. Already a bunch of stundents are showing interest and are hacking on Nuitka, which keeps me even more busy, and makes me extremely happy.

Nuitka Organisation 

The Nuitka organisation on Github was introduced for my a while ago, and I had transferred the ownership of the Nuitka repository to there. Having moved the issue tracking to there, I was going more all in on it.

Recently more people have submitted PRs and with incredible quality and willingness to support it even after merge of their PR. No dry by contribution, but people looking to actually improve Nuitka together with me.

Therefore I welcome Orsiris and Jorj on board and am really happy about it.

Windows Dependencies from pefile 

So Orsiris de Jong implemented a replacement for the dependency walker based code to scan DLLs for Windows standalone using the pefile module, which is likely way better at this. For starters it’s experimental in the next release, but I expect it to soon become the default.