Windows installer from python source code without access to source code

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Fri Mar 31 22:14:34 EDT 2023


On 2023-04-01 at 10:49:18 +1100,
Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> [...] I don't have access to the Gmail source code but I'm using the
> service [...]

You have access to Gmail's front end source code.  Your web browser runs
it every time you use the service (and probably while you aren't using
the service, too).  My educated guess is that Google expended some
effort to hinder you from looking at and/or analyzing (or do you say
analysing?) that code, and that their lawyers will come knocking at your
metaphorical door if they so much as think you are using that code in
some way other than running it inside your web browser.  If only this
situation were a cruel April Fool's Day joke.

You don't have access to Gmail's back end source code.

Many/Most web apps follow this pattern to varying degrees.  I do not
know whether this setup meets the OP's requirements.


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