{Spam?} [ale] (reasonably) mature GUI solutions in Linux

[Irv Mullins]

On Monday 15 September 2003 06:49 am, John Wells wrote:
> Python is something I've thought about, but I'm unsure how immune to
> reverse engineering the pyc compiled files are.  Since he needs to
> distribute his apps to clients as closed-source apps...

The consensus of opinion on the Python lists seems to be that Python byte 
code is pretty easy to convert back into readable form. 

How complex are his apps? 
The easiest would be Euphoria and GTK. This is an extremely fast interpreted 
language which can be bound into an exe in a shrouded and scrambled form, so 
his source would be pretty well protected.
This is fine for such things as accounting apps (I've written several), but if 
his programs rely heavily on internet connectivity, I wouldn't recommend it, 
as it's weak in that area. See http://ellijay.com/users/irvm

Kylix is more capable and might look sort of familiar to a VB programmer. 
Since it's compiled, it would be secure. I personally don't like it, I think 
it's hard to use and easy to crash.

Irv