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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1998-08-25 14:06:55 (GMT)
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New version, with contributions from Sjoerd Mullender and Mark Hammond.
Sjoerd writes: This version of freeze creates one file per Python module, instead of one humongous file for all Python modules. bkfile: new module to used to write files with backups. No new file is produced if the new contents is identical to the old. New option "-x excluded-module" for modulefinder test program. New option "-i filename" for freeze main program to include a list of options in place of the -i option.
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What do I do next?
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-Freeze creates three files: frozen.c, config.c and Makefile. To
-produce the frozen version of your program, you can simply type
-"make". This should produce a binary file. If the filename argument
-to Freeze was "hello.py", the binary will be called "hello".
+Freeze creates a number of files: frozen.c, config.c and Makefile,
+plus one file for each Python module that gets included named
+M_<module>.c. To produce the frozen version of your program, you can
+simply type "make". This should produce a binary file. If the
+filename argument to Freeze was "hello.py", the binary will be called
+"hello".
Note: you can use the -o option to freeze to specify an alternative
directory where these files are created. This makes it easier to