Phillip Mills wrote: > First, thanks to all the people who have answered so far for the > suggestions. > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > André Søreng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Phillip Mills wrote: > > > > My problems are: > > [...] > > > http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ > > Apparently I had more problems than I mentioned. :-) One of them > being that a Windows-only solution is only a partial solution.
There is also py2app for Mac. Still partial? :) Then follow Jaime's way: build and bundle python with your application. > > > > - I also need the core part of the application to be reasonably > > > protected. I'm not looking to defeat hackers, but something > > > equivalent to the way Java's class files stored in jars stay > > > where they're supposed to be and aren't immediately readable. > > > > > Hmm, not sure about that one. You mean that those users who write > > extensions should not be able to modify the core code you wrote? > > Partly that and partly a file management thing. For most end users a > .jar is one thing to deal with; it's the most recent one or it's not; > it's present in the right location or it's not.... Python byte code is like java byte code and python supports importing from zip files like java. Since python comes with a liberal license you can change the importing code to decrypt your modules with a "secret" key. That will be much safer than java. Of course that won't stop real hackers. Serge. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
