On Sep 4, 3:19 pm, Philip Semanchuk <phi...@semanchuk.com> wrote: > 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
Hi Peter Sounds like a plan, how portable will that be between Linux systems? Won't I run into some GLIBC problems? Can you force it to statically link the binary? Marinus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
