On 7/11/13 8:27 AM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) wrote: > Not too relevant these days, as with PHP I need to have the source code on > the server. How does it work with Python?
Depends on what you want to do. For web apps, it's pretty common just to deploy with Git, which means source code on the production server. I've never worked out how to make a binary executable Python web service, for example. For my Dabo-based desktop apps, I make executables for Windows, Mac, and Linux using PyInstaller, py2app, and cx_freeze respectively, and then put those in installer files for Windows and Mac using InnoSetup and a custom DMG maker I made, respectively. On Linux, I just distribute a tarball and a readme. I distribute the source code for just the program I made for the customer, in a separate package. No need to distribute the Dabo source, for instance, since it is and will be available online. I do have some private libraries of my own that are dependencies, which I also distribute with the source. Sometimes I lag before updating their source code, which makes me want to automate the process more. I make sure my clients know that I'm developing in Python, and that a competent programmer that knows Python will be able to take over for me after a few weeks of reading my code and learning my style (which has definitely evolved over the years, making for inconsistencies which sometimes really bug me). I guess it isn't very easy to find competent Python programmers these days (they are all getting hired quicker than new Python programmers are being born) but I feel like I've done my part by doing the above. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
