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➜ is there a way to hide lua source code
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is there a way to hide lua source code
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| Posted by
| Jing Wu
Australia (35 posts) Bio
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| Sun 05 Aug 2012 01:23 PM (UTC) |
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| Hi,
Can I compile xx.lua to a binary lib, and load it into mush?
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks
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| Posted by
| Fiendish
USA (2,553 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Sun 05 Aug 2012 03:58 PM (UTC) Amended on Sun 05 Aug 2012 04:01 PM (UTC) by Fiendish
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| http://www.lua.org/manual/4.0/luac.html
But your premise of "hiding code" is incredibly anti-social.
Knowing what MUSHclient and Lua are capable of, I would never run anything written by you with hidden code. And I would warn other people against doing so. |
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| Posted by
| Jing Wu
Australia (35 posts) Bio
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| Reply #2 on Mon 06 Aug 2012 03:29 PM (UTC) |
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| Thank you for your answer.
Regarding "anti-social" point, I don't mean I'm going to write some harmful code or anything. just seeking a way to protect at least part of my work. This is my original idea.
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| Posted by
| Fiendish
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| Reply #3 on Tue 07 Aug 2012 12:35 AM (UTC) |
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Wjshome said:
I don't mean I'm going to write some harmful code or anything. Sure, says you. |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #4 on Tue 07 Aug 2012 01:47 AM (UTC) |
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| You may not be planning to write harmful code, but if obfuscated, how do I, the person running it, know this?
MUSHclient is open-source. All the Lua stuff (including Lua itself) is open-source, or at least, you can view the source. Fiendish's stuff is supplied as Lua source.
You can, of course, do whatever you want. But supplying a plugin (or whatever it is) in a way people can't check what it is doing is much the same as supplying a .exe file and saying "trust me, it's not a virus/trojan or whatever".
You may have a group of friends who trust you, and would be happy to install your code. That's fine. But in that case, maybe you would trust them not to pirate it.
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