From 5587288b81412cb18f30408bbf160afcfc0d4536 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Hartley Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:30:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Freezing: clarify how it affects Python security updates --- docs/shipping/freezing.rst | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/shipping/freezing.rst b/docs/shipping/freezing.rst index 668bdeb..cdea1e6 100644 --- a/docs/shipping/freezing.rst +++ b/docs/shipping/freezing.rst @@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ Windows, and even on many Linux distributions and OSX versions, the right version of Python will not already be installed. One disadvantage is that it will bloat your distribution by about 2Mb. -Another problem is that your application, once downloaded by a user, will -not receive any security updates to the version of Python it uses. +Another problem is that your application will not receive any security updates +to the version of Python it uses unless you freeze a new version and get +users to download it. Alternatives to Freezing ------------------------