Credits

Thanks goes to all the kind PyInstaller contributors who have contributed new code, bug reports, fixes, comments and ideas. A brief list follows, please let us know if your name is omitted by accident:

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.2.1

Special Thanks to Thomas Waldmann and David Vierra for support when working on the new build system.

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer and release manager.
  • Martin Zibricky - Core developer.
  • David Cortesi - Core developer and documentation manager.
  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer.
  • David Vierra - Core developer and encoding specialist.
  • Cecil Curry - brave bug-fixing and code-refactoring
  • Amane Suzuki
  • Andy Cycle
  • Axel Huebl
  • Bruno Oliveira
  • Dan Auerbach
  • Daniel Hyams
  • Denis Akhiyarov
  • Dror Asaf
  • Dustin Spicuzza
  • Emanuele Bertoldi
  • Glenn Ramsey
  • Hugh Dowling
  • Jesse Suen
  • Jonathan Dan
  • Jonathan Springer
  • Jonathan Stewmon
  • Julie Marchant
  • Kenneth Zhao
  • Linus Groh
  • Mansour Moufid
  • Martin Zibricky
  • Matteo Bertini
  • Nicolas Dickreuter
  • Peter Würtz
  • Ronald Oussoren
  • Santiago Reig
  • Sean Fisk
  • Sergei Litvinchuk
  • Stephen Rauch
  • Thomas Waldmann
  • Till Bald
  • xoviat

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.2

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer and release manager.
  • Martin Zibricky - Core developer.
  • David Cortesi - Core developer and documentation manager.
  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer.
  • David Vierra - Core developer and encoding specialist.
  • Cecil Curry - brave bug-fixing and code-refactoring
  • And Cycle - unicode fixes.
  • Chris Hager - QtQuick hook.
  • David Schoorisse - wrong icon paramter in Windows example.
  • Florian Bruhin - typo hunting.
  • Garth Bushell - Support for objcopy.
  • Insoleet - lib2to3 hook
  • Jonathan Springer - hook fixes, brave works on PyQt.
  • Matteo Bertini - code refactoring.
  • Jonathan Stewmon - bug hunting.
  • Kenneth Zhao - waf update.
  • Leonid Rozenberg - typo hunting.
  • Merlijn Wajer - bug fixing.
  • Nicholas Chammas - cleanups.
  • nih - hook fixes.
  • Olli-Pekka Heinisuo - CherryPy hook.
  • Rui Carmo - cygwin fixes.
  • Stephen Rauch - hooks and fixes for unnecessary rebuilds.
  • Tim Stumbaugh - bug hunting.

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.1.1

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer and release manager.
  • David Vierra - Core developer and encoding specialist.
  • Torsten Landschoff - Fix problems with setuptools
  • Peter Inglesby - resolve symlinks in modulegraph.py
  • syradium - bug hunting
  • dessant - bug hunting
  • Joker Qyou - bug hunting

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.1

  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer and release manager.
  • Martin Zibricky - Core developer.
  • David Cortesi - Core developer and documentation manager.
  • Bryan A. Jones - Core developer.
  • David Vierra - Core developer and encoding specialist.
  • Andrei Kopats - Windows fixes.
  • Andrey Malkov - Django runtime hooks.
  • Ben Hagen - kivy hook, GStreamer realtime hook.
  • Cecil Curry - Module Version Comparisons and and reworking hooks.
  • Dustin Spicuzza - Hooks for GLib, GIntrospection, Gstreamer, etc.
  • giumas - lxml.isoschematron hook.
  • Jonathan Stewmon - Hooks for botocore, boto, boto3 and gevent.monkey.
  • Kenneth Zhao - Solaris fixes.
  • Matthew Einhorn - kivy hook.
  • mementum - pubsub.core hook.
  • Nicholas Chammas - Documentation updates.
  • Nico Galoppo - Hooks for skimage and sklearn.
  • Panagiotis H.M. Issaris - weasyprint hook.
  • Penaz - shelve hook.
  • Roman Yurchak - scipy.linalg hook.
  • Starwarsfan2099 - Distorm3 hook.
  • Thomas Waldmann - Fixes for Bootloader and FreeBSD.
  • Tim Stumbaugh - Bug fixes.
  • zpin - Bug fixes.

Contributions to PyInstaller 3.0

  • Martin Zibricky - Core developer and release manager.
  • Hartmut Goebel - Core developer.
  • David Cortesi - Initial work on Python 3 support, Python 3 fixes, documentation updates, various hook fixes.
  • Cecil Curry - ‘six’ hook for Python 3, various modulegraph improvements, wxPython hook fixes,
  • David Vierra - unicode support in bootloader, Windows SxS Assembly Manifest fixes and many other Windows improvements.
  • Michael Mulley - keyring, PyNaCl import hook.
  • Rainer Dreyer - OS X fixes, hook fixes.
  • Bryan A. Jones - test suite fixes, various hook fixes.
  • Philippe Pepiot - Linux fixes.
  • Emanuele Bertoldi - pycountry import hook, Django import hook fixes.
  • Glenn Ramsey - PyQt5 import hook - support for QtWebEngine on OSX, various hook fixes, Windows fixes.
  • Karol Woźniak - import hook fixes.
  • Jonathan Springer - PyGObject hooks. ctypes, PyEnchant hook fixes, OS X fixes.
  • Giuseppe Masetti - osgeo, mpl_toolkits.basemap and netCDF4 import hooks.
  • Yuu Yamashita - OS X fixes.
  • Thomas Waldmann - FreeBSD fixes.
  • Boris Savelev - FreeBSD and Solaris fixes.
  • Guillermo Gutiérrez - Python 3 fixes.
  • Jasper Geurtz - gui fixes, hook fixes.
  • Holger Pandel - Windows fixes.
  • Anthony Zhang - SpeechRecognition import hook.
  • Andrei Fokau - Python 3.5 fixes.
  • Kenneth Zhao - AIX fixes.
  • Maik Riechert - lensfunpy, rawpy import hooks.
  • Tim Stumbaugh - hook fixes.
  • Andrew Leech - Windows fixes.
  • Patrick Robertson - tkinter import hook fixes.
  • Yaron de Leeuw - import hook fixes.
  • Bryan Cort - PsychoPy import hook.
  • Phoebus Veiz - bootloader fixes.
  • Sean Johnston - version fix.
  • Kevin Zhang - PyExcelerate import hook.
  • Paulo Matias - unicode fixes.
  • Lorenzo Villani - crypto feature, various fixes.
  • Janusz Skonieczny - hook fixes.
  • Martin Gamwell Dawids - Solaris fixes.
  • Volodymyr Vitvitskyi - typo fixes.
  • Thomas Kho - django import hook fixes.
  • Konstantinos Koukopoulos - FreeBSD support.
  • Jonathan Beezley - PyQt5 import hook fixes.
  • Andraz Vrhovec - various fixes.
  • Noah Treuhaft - OpenCV import hook.
  • Michael Hipp - reportlab import hook.
  • Michael Sverdlik - certifi, httplib2, requests, jsonschema import hooks.
  • Santiago Reig - appy import hook.

Contributions to PyInstaller 2.1 and older

  • Glenn Ramsey - PyQt5 import hook.
  • David Cortesi - PyInstaller manual rewrite.
  • Vaclav Smilauer - IPython import hook.
  • Shane Hansen - Linux arm support.
  • Bryan A. Jones - docutils, jinja2, sphinx, pytz, idlelib import hooks.
  • Patrick Stewart <patstew at gmail dot com> - scipy import hook.
  • Georg Schoelly <mail at georg-schoelly dot com> - storm ORM import hook.
  • Vinay Sajip - zmq import hook.
  • Martin Gamwell Dawids - AIX support.
  • Hywel Richards - Solaris support.
  • Brandyn White - packaged executable return code fix.
  • Chien-An “Zero” Cho - PyUSB import hook.
  • Daniel Hyams - h2py, wx.lib.pubsub import hooks.
  • Hartmut Goebel - Python logging system for message output. Option –log-level.
  • Florian Hoech - full Python 2.6 support on Windows including automatic handling of DLLs, CRT, manifest, etc. Read and write resources from/to Win32 PE files.
  • Martin Zibricky - rewrite the build system for the bootloader using waf. LSB compliant precompiled bootloaders for Linux. Windows 64-bit support.
  • Peter Burgers - matplotlib import hook.
  • Nathan Weston - Python architecture detection on OS X.
  • Isaac Wagner - various OS X fixes.
  • Matteo Bertini - OS X support.
  • Daniele Zannotti - OS X support.
  • David Mugnai - Linux support improvements.
  • Arve Knudsen - absolute imports in Python 2.5+
  • Pascal Veret - PyQt4 import hook with Qt4 plugins.
  • Don Dwiggins - pyodbc import hook.
  • Allan Green - refactoring and improved in-process COM servers.
  • Daniele Varrazzo - various bootloader and OS X fixes.
  • Greg Copeland - sqlalchemy import hook.
  • Seth Remington - PyGTK hook improvements.
  • Marco Bonifazi - PyGTK hook improvements. PyOpenGL import hook.
  • Jamie Kirkpatrick - paste import hook.
  • Lorenzo Mancini - PyXML import hook fixes under Windows. OS X support. App bundle creation on OS X. Tkinter on OS X. Precompiled bootloaders for OS X.
  • Lorenzo Berni - django import hook.
  • Louai Al-Khanji - fixes with optparse module.
  • Thomas Heller - set custom icon of Windows exe files.
  • Eugene Prigorodov <eprigorodov at naumen dot ru> - KInterasDB import hook.
  • David C. Morrill - vtkpython import hook.
  • Alan James Salmoni - Tkinter interface to PyInstaller.