[jethro.fn]

Ensymble v0.28 was released today. Ensymble is a tool that can be used to make Symbian Installation Packages (SIS files) for PyS60 applications. Ensymble supports S60 3rd Edition phones only.

Changes since v0.27:

• Added genuid command for generating test-range UIDs.
• Added --unsign option to the signsis command. This is useful when submitting the SIS file to an external signing authority, otherwise the Ensymble default certificate may remain in the resulting signed SIS file.
• Corrected a bug where DLLs (PYDs) would fail with the py2sis --extrasdir option. Previously trying to add PYDs or DLLs using --extrasdir would cause the installation to fail.
• Corrected an encoding bug in simplesis automatic UID generation.
• Corrected a possible Unicode exception in py2sis automatic UID generation.
• Added a warning about using a test-range UID that's different from Ensymble-generated one.

Even though Ensymble still supports Python v2.2, there will no longer be a pre-squeezed version for it available. Google Code SVN repository has not been updated with the latest version. I'll get to that shortly. Please report any problems, suggestions etc.

EDIT: Google Code SVN repository is now up-to-date.

[Rafael T.]

Hi jethro.fn,


Nice to see you at the DiBo again

And really nice to see that Ensymble is still beeing updated!

Congratulations and thanks for this useful tool



BR,

Rafael.

[GameDude]

Any change of adding PKG support or PKG export functionality, since you'll need it to get your application signed? I have added PKG generation to scons-for-symbian, but I'd prefer to have a proper PKG support in Ensymble instead so I could dump makesis and signsis tools altogether.

[dels]

any chance that you could include a GUI for Ensymble, since i hate to download huge pyS60 1.9.x package just to get the GUI tool for ensymble

[ashwinurao]

Originally Posted by dels

any chance that you could include a GUI for Ensymble, since i hate to download huge pyS60 1.9.x package just to get the GUI tool for ensymble

The package size will come down drastically once we move to TkInter GUI replacing the existing PyQt one. Patience.

[croozeus]

Originally Posted by ashwinurao

The package size will come down drastically once we move to TkInter GUI replacing the existing PyQt one. Patience.

And hopefully make available a separate download for GUI ensymble

[jethro.fn]

Originally Posted by GameDude

Any change of adding PKG support or PKG export functionality, since you'll need it to get your application signed? I have added PKG generation to scons-for-symbian, but I'd prefer to have a proper PKG support in Ensymble instead so I could dump makesis and signsis tools altogether.

Well, it would be possible to output a dummy PKG for SIS files generated by Ensymble. However, I maintain my earlier position that it is the Symbian Signed process that is at fault for requiring a PKG file, since the structure of a SIS file can be readily inspected for any details they need. In fact, they already do just that with their Open Signed Online process.

Originally Posted by dels

any chance that you could include a GUI for Ensymble, since i hate to download huge pyS60 1.9.x package just to get the GUI tool for ensymble

Creating a cross-platform GUI is a bit too much work for me at the moment. I'm not interested in Windows-only solutions, since I rarely use Windows myself.

[jplauril]

Originally Posted by jethro.fn

Well, it would be possible to output a dummy PKG for SIS files generated by Ensymble. However, I maintain my earlier position that it is the Symbian Signed process that is at fault for requiring a PKG file, since the structure of a SIS file can be readily inspected for any details they need. In fact, they already do just that with their Open Signed Online process.




Creating a cross-platform GUI is a bit too much work for me at the moment. I'm not interested in Windows-only solutions, since I rarely use Windows myself.

We'll take care of that part