I'm usually just a lurker here, but
WOW! WOULD THAT EVER BE A GREAT FEATURE!
You know why Java is more widely used (by sw development firms) than Perl?
(Even though it ... well ... I don't like it...)
Because you can send your customers compiled code.
Then
-- you know they cannot tinker with it, break it, and
come back to you for support, saying with a straight
face, "Me? No, *I* didn't change anything..."
-- they won't copy your proprietary code all over the internet.
Maybe Perl 6 offers some help here, too - not sure.
I believe that developers need this kind of control if Perl
is to become usable for commercial quality code.
(Maybe that's anathema to the open-source community.
I'm not trying to be flame-bait here, but encryption
would sure help us a LOT.)
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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Lead Architect
www.servergraph.com
512-482-6138 ext 105
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Schoch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 6:18 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Encyrpting Source
>
>
> Has any progress been made on being able to encrypt the source that goes
> into a par generated exe? Is there a proposed spec yet? If not
> i'd like to
> try and help, I think it would be a great feature.
>
> -jess
>
>
