Remove XXL bundle

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 Version history
 ===============
 
+5.0.0b1 (2024-06-??)
+====================
+Breaking changes
+----------------
+* Minimal supported Python version is now 3.9
+* Drop support for Windows 7 and 8.
+* Stop publishing binaries for Linux, #3210. The Linux installation script now creates a private venv (based on system python3) for Thonny even in x84_64.
+* Stop publishing XXL bundle as it is not trivial to prepare bundles for all popular architectures while making sure there are no version conflicts between the large number of packages. For teachers who relied on the XXL bundle, the work-around is to prepare a suitable requirements.txt, which can be used as input in Thonny's package manager.
+
+
 4.1.4 (2023-11-19)
 ==================
 * Fix regression in MicroPython package installation, #2979

packaging/linux/README.md

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Clone the [Flatpak Builder Tools](https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-builder-too
     git clone https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-builder-tools.git
 
 Now run the Flatpak Pip Generator script for the necessary packages.
-The necessary packages are listed in the files `packaging/requirements-regular-bundle.txt` and `packaging/requirements-xxl-bundle.txt` in Thonny's repository.
+The necessary packages are listed in the files `packaging/requirements-regular-bundle.txt` in Thonny's repository.
 The following command shows how to retrieve packages from Thonny's `requirements.txt` file by producing a `python3-modules.json` file.
 I usually convert these to YAML and place them directly in the Flatpak manifest for readability.
 

packaging/linux/create_tarball.sh

@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ $TARGET_DIR/bin/python3.10 -s -m pip install --pre --no-cache-dir thonny
 VERSION=$(<$TARGET_DIR/lib/python3.10/site-packages/thonny/VERSION)
 ARCHITECTURE="$(uname -m)"
 VERSION_NAME=thonny-$VERSION-$ARCHITECTURE 
-XXL_VERSION_NAME=thonny-xxl-$VERSION-$ARCHITECTURE 
 
 
 # clean up unnecessary stuff
@@ -127,19 +126,7 @@ cp ../../*LICENSE.txt $TARGET_DIR
 mkdir -p dist
 tar -cvzf dist/${VERSION_NAME}.tar.gz -C build thonny
 
-# XXL ###########################################################
-
-# $TARGET_DIR/bin/python3.10 -s -m pip install --no-cache-dir -r ../requirements-xxl-bundle.txt
-#
-# find $TARGET_DIR -type f -name "*.pyo" -delete
-# find $TARGET_DIR -type f -name "*.pyc" -delete
-#
-# mkdir -p dist
-# tar -cvzf dist/$XXL_VERSION_NAME.tar.gz -C build thonny
-#
-#
 # create download + install script
-# normal
 DOWNINSTALL_FILENAME=thonny-${VERSION}.bash
 DOWNINSTALL_TARGET=dist/$DOWNINSTALL_FILENAME
 cp downinstall_template.sh $DOWNINSTALL_TARGET
@@ -148,11 +135,3 @@ sed -i "s/_VARIANT_/thonny/g" $DOWNINSTALL_TARGET
 #sed -i "s/_DEPS_/$(tr '\n' ' ' < ../requirements-regular-bundle.txt)/g" $DOWNINSTALL_TARGET
 ./insert_deps.py ../requirements-regular-bundle.txt $DOWNINSTALL_TARGET
 
-# xxl
-#XXL_DOWNINSTALL_FILENAME=thonny-xxl-$VERSION.bash
-#XXL_DOWNINSTALL_TARGET=dist/$XXL_DOWNINSTALL_FILENAME
-#cp downinstall_template.sh $XXL_DOWNINSTALL_TARGET
-#sed -i "s/_VERSION_/$VERSION/g" $XXL_DOWNINSTALL_TARGET
-#sed -i "s/_VARIANT_/thonny-xxl/g" $XXL_DOWNINSTALL_TARGET
-#sed -i "s/_DEPS_/$(tr '\n' ' ' < ../requirements-xxl-bundle.txt)/g" $XXL_DOWNINSTALL_TARGET
-

packaging/mac/create_release.sh

@@ -14,19 +14,6 @@ echo "--- Creating installer -------------------------------------"
 ./create_installer_from_build.sh "thonny" "Thonny" $thonny_version
 
 echo 
-#echo "### Creating XXL installer ###################################################"
-#./prepare_dist_bundle.sh $thonny_version ../requirements-regular-bundle.txt ../requirements-xxl-bundle.txt
-#./sign_bundle_in_build.sh
-#./create_installer_from_build.sh "thonny-xxl" "Thonny XXL" $thonny_version
-
-#echo 
-#echo "### Creating portable DMG ####################################################"
-#./prepare_dist_bundle.sh $thonny_version ../requirements-regular-bundle.txt
-#cp ../portable_thonny.ini build/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/bin
-#./sign_bundle_in_build.sh
-#./create_portable_dmg_from_build.sh "thonny" $thonny_version
-
-
 # clean up #######################################################################
 #rm -rf build
 

packaging/mac/notarize_all.sh

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ set -e
 thonny_version=$(<../../thonny/VERSION)
 
 ~/private/notarize-app.sh "dist/thonny-${thonny_version}.pkg"
-#~/private/notarize-app.sh "dist/thonny-xxl-${thonny_version}.pkg"
 
 
 # Notarizing #####################################################################