Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-10-21, Paulo J. Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I was just wondering, if you wish to commercialize an application >> developed in Python, what's the way to go? >> I guess the only way is to sell the source, right? >> >> This is because (and tell me if I am wrong): >> 1) You can't sell an executable because Python doesn't compile to native >> code (the usual approach, afaik); >> 2) You can't sell the bytecode, otherwise you get the client stuck with >> a specific python version (given bytecode might vary between versions) >> (the alternative); > > You can bundle bytecode with a minimal Python snapshot into an > "application". Under Windows, it'll be mostly .dll, .zip, and > .exe files, so the customer need not know it's Python at all > (though it's not hard for an experienced person to figure that > out). >
Ah, ok, thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to know! :) So, there is an automatic way of creating a python 'package' that bundles the source code with a Python snapshot! :) Any reference on how to do that? Thanks, -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocmatos at gmail.com Webpage: http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
