From: Ruby Maniac <rubymaniac@...>
Date: 2007-09-29T04:45:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Feature request for RubyScript2Exe

On Sep 26, 7:50 am, MenTaLguY <men...@rydia.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:00:05 +0900,RubyManiac <rubyman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It would be nice if RubyScript2Exe was able to handle a passwordedZIP
> > Lib rather than not.  This way any code placed into the .EXE would be
> > encrypted and this would be useful.
>
> Have you thought about how the user would run such a package?  I mean, you
> could give them the password, but...
>
> -mental

Password is kept within the EXE in an encrypted format hidden from the
user.

Look folks, my goal is to distribute Ruby code in a manner that hides
the source code from the end-user and encryption makes this useful.

Some of you might not mind giving away your source code but I rather
like making people dig real hard to get my source code when I distro
my apps.  Call me strange if you must but I am not a huge fan of Open
Source for the sake of open source.  I prefer closed source that
allows people to handle EXE's that contain no source or as in the case
of Ruby encrypted source.