WinPython 2015-07 (2015-10-29) 'IPython 4 awakens'

(soon on Sourceforge, later on Github, strictly equal to release candidate of October 26th)

Highlight: Ipython 4, Spyder 3, Matplotlib 1.5, Pandas 0.17, Qt5.5.1, clother integration with pip

Details: #148

Binaries (currently uploading on sourceforge then here on github):

Release description:
#109 (comment)

(binaries will upload there soon, as a backup from sourceforge)

WinPython 2015-06 release (August 9th, 2015)

main features:

• third build with PyQt5, using PyQt5.5.0,
• no more Qt4 packages,
• PyQtGraph and Spyder are 'fresh from Github' versions (to get more Qt5 fixes)
• one know bug: if you install or uninstall only one package at a time with WinPython Control Panel:
  • the package is installed (or uninstalled),
  • then a Window open to show a 'installing'/'uninstalling the package' message
    ==> You have to click the "cancel" button of this useless window to make it go away.

Winpython with Qt5.5 is a new branch, added to the existing ones.
Winpython of next release will include the usual branches under Qt4.11 .

History of changes for WinPython 3.4.3.5_build7Qt5

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.3.4.

Tools

Removed packages:

• MinGW32 4.9.2 (C/C++ and Fortran compilers (Mingwpy static toolchain version))
• gettext 0.14.4 (GNU gettext Win32 porting - the GNU translation tool (useful tools for pygettext, a standard library module))

Python packages

New packages:

• Markdown 2.6.2 (Python implementation of Markdown.)
• PyAudio 0.2.8 (Bindings for PortAudio v19, the cross-platform audio input/output stream library.)
• PyQt5 5.5 (Python bindings for the Qt cross platform GUI toolkit)
• blaze 0.8.2 (Blaze)
• bokeh 0.9.2 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)
• greenlet 0.4.7 (Lightweight in-process concurrent programming)
• holoviews 1.3.2 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)
• locket.py 0.2.0 (File-based locks for Python for Linux and Windows)
• mingwpy 0.1.0b3 (the python friendly windows compiler toolchain)
• netCDF4 1.1.9 (python/numpy interface to netCDF library (versions 3 and 4))
• param 1.3.2 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)
• partd 0.3.2 (Appendable key-value storage)
• pystache 0.5.4 (Mustache for Python)
• twitter 1.17.0 (An API and command-line toolset for Twitter (twitter.com))
• xray 0.5.2 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

Upgraded packages:

• Keras 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)
• Pillow 2.8.2 → 2.9.0 (Python Imaging Library (fork))
• SQLAlchemy 1.0.5 → 1.0.8 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
• alabaster 0.7.4 → 0.7.6 (A configurable sidebar-enabled Sphinx theme)
• bcolz 0.9.0 → 0.10.0 (columnar and compressed data containers.)
• beautifulsoup4 4.3.2 → 4.4.0 (Screen-scraping library)
• click 4.0 → 4.1 (A simple wrapper around optparse for powerful command line utilities.)
• dask 0.5.0 → 0.6.1 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)
• datashape 0.4.5 → 0.4.6 (A data description language)
• dill 0.2.2 → 0.2.3 (serialize all of python (almost))
• ipython 3.2.0 → 3.2.1 (Enhanced Python shell)
• llvmlite 0.5.1 → 0.6.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)
• logilab_common 0.63.2 → 1.0.2 (Collection of low-level Python packages and modules used by Logilab projects (required for pylint))
• mistune 0.5.1 → 0.7 (The fastest markdown parser in pure Python, inspired by marked.)
• multipledispatch 0.4.7 → 0.4.8 (A relatively sane approach to multiple dispatch in Python)
• nltk 3.0.2 → 3.0.4 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)
• numba 0.19.2 → 0.20.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)
• oct2py 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)
• odo 0.3.2 → 0.3.3 (Data migration in Python)
• patsy 0.3.0 → 0.4.0 (Describing statistical models using symbolic formulas)
• pip 7.0.3 → 7.1.0 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• psutil 3.0.0 → 3.1.1 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
• pymongo 3.0.2 → 3.0.3 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)
• pyodbc 3.0.9 → 3.0.10 (DB API Module for ODBC)
• rpy2 2.6.0 → 2.6.1 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))
• scipy 0.15.1 → 0.16.0 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))
• seaborn 0.5.1 → 0.6.0 (statistical data visualization)
• simplejson 3.7.3 → 3.8.0 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
• spyder 2.3.5.2 → 3.0.0dev (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)
• tornado 4.2 → 4.2.1 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))
• xlrd 0.9.3 → 0.9.4 (Extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files)

Removed packages:

• PyQt4 4.11.4 (Python bindings for the Qt cross platform GUI toolkit)
• PyQtdesignerplugins 1.1 (PyQtdesignerplugins installs Python Qt designer plugins (Matplotlib, guiqwt, etc.) for PyQt4)
• PyQwt 5.2.1 (2D plotting library (set of Python bindings for the Qwt library featuring fast plotting))
• VPython 5.74 (A free, open-source module for producing real-time 3D scenes with Python)
• ViTables 2.1 (Graphical tool for browsing and editing files in both HDF5 and PyTables formats)
• formlayout 1.0.15 (Module for creating form dialogs/widgets to edit various type of parameters without having to write any GUI code)
• ggplot 0.6.5 (ggplot for python)
• guidata 1.6.2 (Automatically generated graphical user interfaces for easy data set edition and display)
• mahotas 1.2.4 (Computer Vision library)
• runipy 0.1.3 (Run IPython notebooks from the command line)
• vispy 0.4.0 (Interactive visualization in Python)

Main Features of build5 :

• change to beta3 of GCC compiler toolchain in a wheel (mingwpy)
• there is no Openblas complement (until it becomes available the wheel way too).

==> The mingwpy maintainers would be very pleased to have some feedback.

see #109 (comment) for detail packages

Update of all current packages.
Stabilization step.

Spyder 3.0.0 dev of july 22nd in current attachement
PyQt5.5.0
==> Recommanded only for users looking to hunt bugs in Qt5.5 Windows and post errors in mailing list of PyQt , Spyder or WinPython

main change, for the build system:

• shift to a ".bat" method to create builds
• adapt "spyder" and "spyder (light)" to change in spyder 2.3.5

main change for the release:

• upgrade of every package,
• last release with a python 3.3.

respin because of:

• odo was missing,
• pandas was not updated to 0.16.2.

md5/sha1 at #91

main change, for the build system:

• shift to a ".bat" method to create builds
• adapt "spyder" and "spyder (light)" to change in spyder 2.3.5

main change for the release:

• upgrade of every package,
• last release with a python 3.3.