Hi G.J. reason that some parts of the CCS are encoded are twofold: - to improve performance - to draw the line btw. pieces of the code that may and may not be changed in order to maintain upgradeability.
Obviously, with the open source, it's always a challenge to allow for customization, while providing upgrade path to the users of the software. We didn't want to get in the situation where due to extension of the customizations one has done, one is reluctant to upgrade to new version (as this may break customizations). So, we encode pieces that if changed may prevent you from an easy upgrade. Having said that, CCS is really, truly open source. It will not be a default download, but you can get source version if you prefer. Due to a technical slip, we don't have it posted yet, but I'll be surprised if source code version does not appear in the next hour or so on the ccs.tucows.com. Thanks, ------------------------------------ Zeljko Dimic Technical Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucows Inc. 96 Mowat Avenue Toronto, ON, M6K 3M1 Canada tel: 416.535.0123 x 1256 fax: 416.531.5584 ------------------------------------ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of G.J. Moed > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 11:49 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [domains-gen] CCS is now available! > > > Joey deVilla wrote: > > The new Client Code Suite (CCS) is now available for download! > > And unfortunately still a no-go for us and maybe others... > Why? > > First I thought this was something related to dev. and thus the > pre-releases only, but now it seems there are still parts closed-source > and we still need the zend optimizer/encoder thingy. > >From tucows focus is on the big plus being performance, no issue, we can > accelerate code ourselves in various ways, and open-source if needed. > I don't know what there is to hide in this CCS code, and I'm not going > to argue for or against, I'm simply disappointed. > We're not going to use this CCS until parts we would need (domains only) > become some sort of open-source. > We prefer to know what we're using and deploying in production > environments and don't like closed-source where we simply don't know > what's going on. For all we know, the encoded parts call home and > transmit sensitive information... Not saying it does, but I don't like > the idea... > > Just my thoughts... > > Best regards, > > G.J. > > _______________________________________________ > domains-gen mailing list > [email protected] > http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen > _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
