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 banibrata.du...@gmail.com: 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

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 want your

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

Re: Shipping Executables

2010-02-16 Thread geremy condra
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:41 PM, rodmc userprogoogle-...@yahoo.co.uk 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

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

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 I

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 of

Re: Shipping Executables

2010-02-16 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Banibrata Dutta banibrata.du...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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/ Holden

Re: Shipping Executables

2010-02-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:00:59 -0500, geremy condra quoted Banibrata Dutta banibrata.du...@gmail.com: 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

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 less 100%