From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2004-07-07T20:43:51+09:00 Subject: Re: Secure Ruby Compiler Hello Erik, EV> No. The idea of RubyScript2Exe is to let a script run on EV> Windows in the simplest way possible (or "How can my mother EV> start an application?"). Manually copying one or more DLL's EV> isn't the simplest way. You could as well install Ruby... EV> The "hiding my code" in this thread is just a side effect of EV> RubyScript2Exe, not one of its goals. EV> Do you really care about size? I usually don't... As long as less then 20% of the worlds computer user population has high bandwidth access there is problem. One of the papers in the marketing area of "www.download.com" (still the worlds largest download service) is a statistic about "size <-> download numbers" and there is a clear indication that programs over 5 MB are getting less downloads then competitive programms. So yes, depending on my targeted customers, i care about size. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's