1. Re: shrouding
-----Original Message-----
De: Frank Atry <suprsngr at EARTHLINK.NET>
Para: EUPHORIA at cwisserver1.mcs.muohio.edu
<EUPHORIA at cwisserver1.mcs.muohio.edu>
Fecha: lunes 22 de junio de 1998 14:37
Asunto: Re: shrouding
>Hi:
>Have noticed two terms used quite often in relation to Euphoria: binding
and
>shrouding. I think I know what "binding" means (compiling?). Was
wondering
>if someone could explain "shrouding" to me in simple, not-too-technical
>terms.
Shrouding (made by shroud.bat) is a way to cripple your source code so it's
unreadable to others (even to you!). You usually use shrouding when
releasing a source file (.e or .ex) to others and don't want them to get the
source code (in an editable/copiable way).
Binding goes a step further by combining into one executable file the
Euphoria interpreter (ex.exe) and your source into. It looks like
compilation but it's not... it's just your source code appended to the end
of a copy of ex.exe. Bounded programs are by default shrouded also, so no
one can mess with the embbeded code in the executable.
Hope this is clear to you.
Regards,
Daniel Berstein
daber at pair.com
