cross platform distribution

[Philip Semanchuk]

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