Four problems with Gordon McMillan's Installer

[Thomas Heller]

> Yes, I used your program a couple of days ago when it was hot off the press.
> It worked nicely and very smoothly.
Glad to hear this!

  The problem that I had with it was that
> you pack all the source .pyc files into an easily expandable zip file.
> These can be easily extracted and decompiled back to .py for all the world
> to see.  I dont want people messing with the source so I was looking for
> something that was not quite as easy to hack.
>
> Maybe there is something that can be done with your program to at least hide
> the python files inside the zip file to provide at least some level of
> security?  I dont know how others handle this for commercial apps.
Well, this is on the to-do list for later.
I want to do this in two stages:
- first, use a notstandard zip-header so that winzip does
not recognize it
- second, maybe crypt the .pyc files in the archive somehow
and decrypt them in the exe.

Do you think this would be apppropriate?

I have no idea yet for the .pyd files.

Thomas