Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Paulo J. Matos a écrit : >> 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? > > Nope, why ? > >> 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); > > This is the case for quite a few languages (VB6 and Java just to name a > few), and it seems like it didn't prevent anyone writing and selling > commercial software written with these languages. > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > >
Truth is I am ignorant as how Java packages are sold. :) About VB I thought they generate an executable and that is installed on the clients computer (at least in old VB5, I guess). Question remains, how would you do it with Python? (I am not saying that you can't in Python, I just really don't know!) -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocmatos at gmail.com Webpage: http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list