v1.6.0

• Added support for Python 3.11 and set minimum supported Python version to 3.9.8.
• Recipe build performance has been improved significantly and Conan cache usage has been reduced:
  • In cases where only the packages option changes, the recipe no longer requires CPython to be re-compiled (Linux, macOS) or re-downloaded (Windows) every single time. Instead, we take advantage of the Conan cache: the new embedded_python-core package contains all baseline binaries (without any pip packages). embedded_python builds on top of -core by adding the pip packages and can reuse any compatible -core package from the cache.
  • The Python packages are now installed directly into the package folder instead of going via the build folder. This speeds up the packaging and reduces space usage since there's no more file duplication.
  • With Python >= 3.11, the recipe now makes use of the new ./configure --disable-test-modules option to avoid building and packaging CPython's internal tests.
  • On macOS and Linux, the Python standard library is now stored in a .zip file to reduce package size (as was already the case on Windows). This is controlled by the embedded_python-core:zip_stdlib option which can have the values of no, stored, or delflated.
• Updated default recipe options to pip v23.1.2, setuptools v67.8.0, and wheel v0.40.0 to improve compatibility with the latest PyPI packages.
• Updated default pip_licenses_version to v4.3.2 for compatibility with Python 3.11.
• Fixed a bug where deleting the recipe build folder would make the package unusable because the package folder accidentally contained symlinks to files in the build folder.
• Fixed a bug on Windows where pip install would fail for packages that needed to build a wheel from source (e.g git requirements).
• Fixed a bug on Windows where embedded_python_tools would fail when the source and destination were on different network drives. It will now fall back to files.copy() in case CreateJunction() is not possible.