On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 04:06, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello, > > Alain Samoun wrote: > > > > Manuel: > > In all fairness to the Zend people, you can get the compiler for $600/year > > or $50 per month. > > The unlimited Zend Encoder Unlimited costs $2400. Actually, I don't see > any other Zend Encoder purchase option. > > Anyway, like a lot of other PHP users, I am not interested in expensive > commercial solutions, even less those that tie me to those products > indefinetly. If people want to pay such fees to be fair to Zend or just > to believe that what they got is good because it costed a lot of money, > fine it is their problem. Now, it is true that a lot of people choose > PHP because it is a free and easy solution for their developments but > inlike with other languages there is no way to distribute a closed > source version of their software. > > That is the proposal. This is about PHP, not Zend Encoder or comercial > solutions. If people wanted to use Zend Encoder or any other commercial > solutions, this thread would not have been even started. > > > If it still look too expansive to you, compared to the free perl compiler, > > there is also a perl compiler that costs $5,000... > > Alain, be serious, Java compilers cost nothing. I know for a fact that a > lot of people are discarding PHP because there is not an officially > supported and free solution to compiler and distribute PHP application > binaries when in Java and other languages that is a natural thing. > > This means that people drop PHP when they realize that it isn't as easy > to protect their code to sell their applications. Until PHP developers > realize that it is important to make it easy for PHP users to sell their > applications, PHP will be seen as a less appealing solution. > > > Also, someone may be able to reverse the PHP code to C and create an exe > > with it (like Perl) . And last, but maybe the future: Web Services with > > SOAP? > > It should be not be that hard. There are Java bytecode to C converters, > it should not be hard to make Zend bytecode to C conversion.
Wishful thinking? :-) Unless I'm mistaken, Java doesn't have eval. Any language with eval needs a runtime environment when executing, even if the rest of the code is converted to C. - Stig -- 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]
