Re: [pygame] Galcon released

[Bob the Hamster <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:49:33PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:27:04AM -0800, Bob the Hamster wrote:
> > On 12/9/06, Phil Hassey <philhassey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >Richard,
> > >
> > >I think it might work in wine, but I don't know for sure ...
> > >
> > >Is there a "py2exe" out there for linux stuff?  If there was,  I might be
> > >able to put together a linux package of it.
> > >
> > >Phil
> > 
> > There is a common misconception among developers who come from a
> > Windows background that you cannot distribute commerial programs for
> > linux because there is no way to "bind them into an exe"
> > 
> > You can easily make a tarball containing your .pyd files and not your
> > .py source code, and sell that to Linux users.
> 
> I think you mean .pyc (or .pyo) rather than .pyd (which is used for DLLs
> used as Python extension modules on Windows).

Sorry, yeah. I meant .pyo

> I've heard that it is pretty easy to decompile them back into .py files.

*shrug* So are the pyo files zipped up in the files py2exe produces.

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Bob the Hamster