On Sep 4, 2009, at 4:44 AM, vpr wrote:
Hi All After a couple of experiments, searching around and reading Steve Holden's lament about bundling and ship python code, I thought I'd direct this to to the group. I'm using Python 2.6 btw. I've build a commercial application that I'd like to bundle and ship. I'd like to protect some of my IP and the py2exe and cx_freeze builds provide good enough protection for me. I'd like to provide a build for windows and a build for linux. Windows ironically has been easier to target and py2exe has given me a nice build that I can ship between XP, Vista & Server on both 32 and 64 bit. On linux I've build a build using cx_freeze which works well except it's not really portable betweem distributions. I've also been thinking about distributing bytcode versions but things get tricky quickly. Can anywone give me some pointers?
I don't know how much "critical" code you have, but you might want to look at Cython which will translate your Python into C with little change to your Python source. Of course, compiled C code can still be disassembled, but it's harder than Python bytecode.
HTH P -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
