That cgi idea is really cool, but I don't have any web space to host the files. Plus the bandwidth required would be deadly. I think I'll just have to stick to the zip file idea. The problem with the read-only is that this program is aimed at a Windows audience.
James Stroud wrote: > Jay wrote: > > That's one solution, but I'd rather a file format the end-user can't > > easily mess around with. > > Require the program to be installed as root and installation to be in a > read-only directory--or serve the resources to your program from a cgi > script somewhere, only to be downloaded when needed. This way, the user > would at least have to reverse engineer your program to see where the > resources were coming from so they could plug the appropriate query in > their web browser. > > James > > > -- > James Stroud > UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics > Box 951570 > Los Angeles, CA 90095 > > http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list