0.12.0.0 - Expects version_info to always be defined

[Athanasius]

Before migrating EDMarketConnector over to the new freeze() API I decided to check if our old setup.py would work with 0.12.0.0.

It yields:

...
  File "C:\Users\Athan\Documents\Devel\EDMarketConnector\venv\lib\site-packages\py2exe\runtime.py", line 364, in build_exe
    if self.options.version_info:
AttributeError: 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'version_info'

As this is against our legacy setup.py, we only have version=.

https://github.com/py2exe/py2exe/blob/master/docs/migration.md implies that you only need to change to version_info when migrating to the new freeze() API. So, this would appear to be a breaking change.

[albertosottile]

Yes, that was the assumption, but now I realized that I inadvertently killed the processing of the older attributes. it probably does not help that I stopped testing the setup.py interface in CI. I will prepare a patch release ASAP.

[Athanasius]

In fact I can't seem to find a way to specify this version_info that works:

1. Put it inside the py2exe of options={...} -> error: error in setup script: command 'py2exe' has no such option 'version_info'.
2. Put it in options={...}, but outside the py2exe dictionary ->

   ...\py2exe\runtime.py", line 364, in build_exe
       if self.options.version_info:
   AttributeError: 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'version_info'
   

3. Pass version_info={...} in setup() call -> that same Namespace error.

Ah, I see you just replied above. I'll await the patch then :)

[albertosottile]

To be clear, there will be no way to use version_info with setup. I just intend to restore the older behavior of setup for the time being, and then delete it with the rest of the setup code in the next major.

[albertosottile]

Upon further inspection of the old code and of the previous builds of Syncplay (my reference software frozen with py2exe), it appears the version options were simply ignored before... Therefore, I will just patch the code to function as before (working with setup.py when no version attribute is specified).

[albertosottile]

Fixed in 0.12.0.1. Thanks for having spotted this so quickly. Unfortunately, I had to drop tests for the deprecated API as I simply cannot afford to double the CI execution times. Let's hope this patch is enough to fix the old use cases and that we can now start moving forward to the new API.

[Athanasius]

0.12.0.1 confirmed as working for EDMarketConnector's python setup.py py2exe.