software-distribution

According to the apple website iOS 4 should support wireless app distribution. I have been unable to find any documentation at all on how to host your applications for users to download them over wifi/3g. We are currently enrolled in the standard iPhone dev program, as we don't have over 500 employees. Is this limited feature limited to the enterprise program only? If you don't have an entreprise account. You won't have the unlimited or very large pool of devices you can add to your account distribution profiles. BUT, even with normal accounts you can definitely create an Ad Hoc distribution

When should you install into the GAC and when should you not? (I am referring, really, to installing on a client's machine when they have purchased our product(s)). I have an assembly that is only going to be used with my one application (GAC or no-GAC)? I have an assembly that all my applications share (GAC or no-GAC)? All my applications may use different versions of my assembly (GAC or no-GAC)? These are three scenarios... but I am sure there are more. I'm not necessarily looking an answer to only these three questions. Similar question: What are the advantages and disadvantages of using

I am curious about how do you protect your software against cracking, hacking etc. Do you employ some kind of serial number check? Hardware keys? Do you use any third-party solutions? How do you go about solving licensing issues? (e.g. managing floating licenses) EDIT: I'm not talking any open source, but strictly commercial software distribution... There are many, many, many protections available. The key is: Assessing your target audience, and what they're willing to put up with Understanding your audience's desire to play with no pay Assessing the amount someone is willing to put forth to

This question already has an answer here: Create a single executable from a Python project 2 answers I wrote a script that will help a Windows user in her daily life. I want to simply send her the .exe and not ask her to install python, dlls or have to deal with any additional files. I've read plenty of the stackoverflow entries regarding compiling Python scripts into executable files. I am a bit confused as there are many options but some seem dated (no updates since 2008) and none were simple enough for me not to be asking this right now after a few hours spent on this. I'm hoping there's a

Suppose I want to distribute a Java application. Suppose I want to distribute it as a single executable. I could easily build a .jar with both the application and all its external dependencies in a single file (with some Ant hacking). Now suppose I want to distribute it as an .exe file on Windows. That's easy enough, given the nice tools out there (such as Launch4j and the likes). But suppose now that I also don't want to depend on the end user having the right JRE (or any JRE at all for that matter) installed. I want to distribute a JRE with my app, and my app should run on this JRE. It's

Is it possible to specify a post-install Python script file as part of the setuptools setup.py file so that a user can run the command: python setup.py install on a local project file archive, or pip install <name> for a PyPI project and the script will be run at the completion of the standard setuptools install? I am looking to perform post-install tasks that can be coded in a single Python script file (e.g. deliver a custom post-install message to the user, pull additional data files from a different remote source repository). I came across this SO answer from several years ago that