Paulo J. Matos wrote: > 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? >
Question cleared: http://wiki.python.org/moin/DistributionUtilities > Thanks, > -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocmatos at gmail.com Webpage: http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
