[Catalyst] creating binaries

[Wade.Stuart at fallon.com]

"Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita at gmail.com> wrote on 01/16/2007 01:20:00 PM:

> From: <Wade.Stuart at fallon.com>
> > No.  There is really no way to distribute a perl application in a way
to
> > hide its source.  Any attempt you make will be met with false security
and
> > failure.  Maybe Perl 6,  but that is still unanswered at this point.
>
> Have you found a way of cracking the protection of the programs made with

> perlapp?
> Many people say that "it is not a real protection" but nobody was able to

> crack it.
> Well, I need that kind of protection that can be cracked, but which
nobody
> cracked it because it might be too hard.
>
> I just hope it is possible to create programs with Catalyst protected
that
> way.
>
> Octavian

Take a look at /tmp/pdk/ perlapp exes dump the plaintext while running.
This is not a "problem" with Catalyst,  perl is an interpreted language not
a compiled one.  perlapp is there to make distributing self contained perl
applications easier,  not to protect your source.