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.
Regards,
Manuel Lemos
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