Distribute app without source?
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Apr 7 13:22:41 EDT 2012
On 4/7/2012 9:07 AM, Bill Felton wrote:
> Thanks in advance for any insights!
>
> My partner and I have developed an application primarily
> intended for internal use within our company. However, we face the
> need to expose the app to certain non-employees.
> We would like to do so without exposing our source code.
To really do that, make it a web service, so the code only lives on your
server. That also takes care of
> Our targets include users of Windows and Mac OS, but not UNIX.
You could also distribute .pyc files compiled from obfuscated .py files.
> We are using Python 3.2 and tkinter. It appears, and limited testing
> bears out, that py2app, and presumably py2exe, are not options given
> lack of 3.x support. PyInstaller does not support the 64-bit version
> we are using.
Any such thing will include the contents of .pyc files somehow, even if
harder to get at.
> Does it make sense for us to try to use pyInstaller with a 32-bit
> install of Python 3.2?
If you app runs within 2 GB, I would think yes.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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