release date: december 2024

• delayed as anti-virus were remaining unhappy with new launcher method
• 2024-12-23 : revert to NSIS launchers method

wanted:

• Simplify further the infrastructure and post-controls:
  • global aim: remove, bit per bit, win32 and x64 specific
  • remove Inno and NSIS code to create installers,
  • revert to NSIS icon launchers as new solution proves not acceptable
  • move towards leaner PEP-751-style WinPython:
    • a minimal .dot version
    • over a .dot version, packages are installed from Python via a requirement file with hash per packages
• speed:
  • Python-3.13.1 gives a 4% speed-up over 3.12,
  • Python-3.14a3 JIT is next 4% but not accessible yet
• numpy-2.1.3 with numba-0.61.0rc2 supports
• AI agents

Experiment:

• tested windows that can now .7z by itself, may allow skiping 7zip to build... but it's 5x slower.
• jupyterlite more
• llm and generative AI: whisper.cpp , windows included machinery

Direction:

• Help to Python Sustainability improvement:
  • favorise latest=more efficient and maintained python
  • favorise dataframe interchange protocol: numpy-2, pandas-3, scikit-learn integrating polars,
  • favorise AI: onnx (for AI PC), llvm local small equivalent to ggerganov/whisper.cpp
• Help to Python Reachability:
  • in browser (and WebApp): Jupyterlite prototype (https://stonebig.github.io/my_demo_4/lab/index.html),
  • WASI: in VSCode
  • inside Excel 365: asks Operational Research packages
  • in Windows Store: a requirement file- remove need of build pieces: nsis, 7zip
• PEP-751:
  • WinPython ideal world is to shrink to a toml file specifying package/version/hash
• WinPythondot being enough to build a WinPython...