Re: Shipping Executables

2010-02-20 Thread Gib Bogle
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:00:59 -0500, geremy condra quoted Banibrata Dutta : BTW for people who are non-believers in something being worth stealing needing protection, need to read about the Skype client. Pardon me for breaking threading, but the original post has not com

Re: Shipping Executables

2010-02-17 Thread rodmc
> > Hi Rod, > > The user's ability to hack into the code is usually considered one of > > the strengths of Python & open source software in general. Since most > > Python software that's distributed  is open source, you're doing > > something different than most. It'd help if you explain how you w

Re: Shipping Executables

2010-02-16 Thread Steve Holden
Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:41 PM, rodmc wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have been merrily programming away in Python now for a few years and >> have a couple of applications I would like to possibly publish at some >> point - with the exception of certain libraries they are more or

Re: Shipping Executables

2010-02-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:00:59 -0500, geremy condra quoted Banibrata Dutta : >> BTW for people who are non-believers in something being worth stealing >> needing protection, need to read about the Skype client. Pardon me for breaking threading, but the original post has not come through to my prov

Re: Shipping Executables

2010-02-16 Thread Steve Holden
geremy condra wrote: [...] > I'd worry about developing a product worth stealing before I > worried about people stealing it ;) > > Geremy Condra +1 FAQ entry! regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon is coming! Atlanta, Feb 2010 http://us.pycon.org/ Hol

Re: Shipping Executables

2010-02-16 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Banibrata Dutta wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> >> > security aspects I guess it would also not be much use, is this correct? >> Absolutely 100% wrong. It is an fundamental principle of security that >> you must not assume

Re: Shipping Executables

2010-02-16 Thread Banibrata Dutta
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano < ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > > security aspects I guess it would also not be much use, is this correct? > > Absolutely 100% wrong. It is an fundamental principle of security that > you must not assume that the enemy is ignorant

Re: Shipping Executables

2010-02-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:41:21 -0800, rodmc wrote: > Hi, > > I have been merrily programming away in Python now for a few years and > have a couple of applications I would like to possibly publish at some > point - with the exception of certain libraries they are more or less > 100% Python. However

Re: Shipping Executables

2010-02-16 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:41 PM, rodmc wrote: Hi, I have been merrily programming away in Python now for a few years and have a couple of applications I would like to possibly publish at some point - with the exception of certain libraries they are more or less 100% Python. However I have read els

Re: Shipping Executables

2010-02-16 Thread geremy condra
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:41 PM, rodmc wrote: > Hi, > > I have been merrily programming away in Python now for a few years and > have a couple of applications I would like to possibly publish at some > point - with the exception of certain libraries they are more or less > 100% Python. However I h

Shipping Executables

2010-02-16 Thread rodmc
Hi, I have been merrily programming away in Python now for a few years and have a couple of applications I would like to possibly publish at some point - with the exception of certain libraries they are more or less 100% Python. However I have read elsewhere online that Python due to it's architec