Four problems with Gordon McMillan's Installer

[Thomas Heller]

"Dave Brueck" <dbrueck at edgix.com> wrote in message news:mailman.981135004.31623.python-list at python.org...
> > > 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?
>
> Yes, that sounds like a good idea... you can use the imp/ihooks (is ihooks
> obsolete?) modules to hook into the normal module importer and decrypt them
> on the fly.

This is what I had planned.

> For the zipfile you could still use a normal format but save it
> to disk in a munged-up format (something simple like the rotor module would
> keep most people out anyway) and then unmunge before reading it.
>
> -Dave
>
> P.S. - I just tried the latest version of py2exe on a wxPython program and
> it worked _flawlessly_ and took little time to set up and get going. Very
> cool...
>
>

Thanks for trying it,

Thomas