Jerrett Taylor wrote: >I agree.. Also if you have a way of distributing binarys, you can >release the source with it.. Much like a lot of people do already with >binaries for *nix .. > >That way you have a binary, that people can use/run without hacking it >apart, and coming back to you with "I broke it, fix it for me!" , and >they can look at the source (if you want) to see how its done > > >.. Best of both worlds! > modfying the file io layer to deal with encoded (dump of the parsed data structs) files, is realitivly simple in theory, so if you have the time..... :)
what I posted a while back was a method of merging php code into an extension. - It was theoretically postible to do that as well.., however it was not wonderfully effecient in terms of design. - you basically had to recompile the whole php binary just to use the code... - the nicer option would be what the old phpcompiler did - just add the code to the end of the php binary??? and do some other changes to make it execute the binary using the attached data. - If somebody could send me a copy :) - I'd love to see how that was done.. - searching google for 'merging data into exectutable binaries' doesnt get anywhere... :) eg. 1. how does the php binary know where it's theoretical end point is, and the other data starts.. (guess work and looking for a data sequence?) 2. how does it read data from it's own internal memory, relative to the programs loaded memory space! - that one really threw me - otherwise it would have to load the file into memory, the re-read the data from it's own binary off the disk - sounds as bad as Plan A :)... 3. how can you make it cross platform! from my aspect - looking at phpgtk apps, the compiled/protected bit is not important - its the distribution of a single exe + a few dll's rather than getting individual windows users to have a whole load of text files lying around.. - as everyone here knows there not much difference between the two - but try explaining that to the average windows IT manager = saftey in familarity :) regards alan -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
