Paulo J. Matos wrote:
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
Which of the programs there makes an "real" executable,
I mean an executable that can't be reversed engineered in less than 2
minutes ?
cheers,
Stef
Thanks,
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