On 17 December 2012 12:54, jerro <a...@a.com> wrote: > If we want to allow D to fit into various niche markets overlooked by C++, >> for added security, encryption could be added, where the person compiling >> encrypted .di files would have to supply a key. That would work only for >> certain situations, not for mass distribution, but it may be useful to >> enough people. >> > > I can't imagine a situation where encrypting .di files would make any > sense. Such files would be completely useless without the key, so you would > have to either distribute the key along with the files or the compiler > would need to contain the key. The former obviously makes encryption > pointless and you could only make the latter work by attempting to hide the > key inside the compiler. The fact that the compiler is open source would > make that harder and someone would eventually manage to extract the key in > any case. This whole DRM business would also prevent D from ever being > added to GCC. >
It's not as if phobos would be distributed that way. And even it if was, then there'd be an uproar and a fork of the project. -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
