[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am sure that this question might have come up repeatedly. Companies > may not want to distribute their python code in source form. Even > though pyc files are one option, it gets inconvenient to distribute > bunch of them . If there is some way to bundle pyc files (akin to > .jar), it would be really nice. I understand that pyc files are not > hard to decompile (from my reading of previous posts) and module > startup times may be longer if they have to be read from an archive. > Neverthless, an option to distribute in the form of an archive is > attractive. Has this ever been considered for Python? If one were to > consider it, what would be pros and cons of such approach? > > Any comments are appreciated. > > Thanks, > Raghu. >
Looks like it's in the works: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs Cheers, Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list