[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Feature Requests-793069 ] Add --remove-source option

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Feature Requests item #793069, was opened at 2003-08-22 12:08
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Category: Distutils
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: David Fraser (davidfraser)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Add --remove-source option

Initial Comment:
For distributing non-opensource software, it is helpful

to just distribute the .pyc/.pyo files and not the

original .py files.

The reverse (just distributing .py files) is possible

through the --no-target-compile and

--no-target-optimize switches to the distutils bdist

command.

We have added a --remove-source option which goes

through and deletes all the source files from the build

directory. This has been tested and works smoothly with

Python 2.2.3 and seems to apply cleanly to Python 2.3

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>Comment By: David Fraser (davidfraser)
Date: 2003-09-12 22:40

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Sure, I'm aware of decompyling. However removing the source

might have a slight psychological effect on honest people.

Also it ties in to license things about decompiling etc.

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Comment By: Jeremy Fincher (jemfinch)
Date: 2003-09-12 21:18

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It's someone trivial to retrieve the source code from a

compiled bytecode module; distributing only the bytecode

files does practically nothing to protect your source code.



Check out http://www.crazy-compilers.com/decompyle/

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Comment By: David Fraser (davidfraser)
Date: 2003-08-22 12:34

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Added a patch for this (sorry, probably should have just

done that) as 793070:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=793070&group_id=5470&atid=305470

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