Marcus Agehall (PacketFront) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
That would be a big advantage for Pike for people who want to do commercial softwares. There is the dump of modules which allow you to avoid distributing the source code for Pike modules but it does it only for Pike modules.
Non-pike modules are already binary and does not need to be dumped. You can distribute byte-compiled code if you like, but noone has said it's easy since it may or may not be compatible with the users pike version. If you send a Pike binary along with your distribution, you should be fine.
In my statement about source code, I was refering to Pike script file (not modules), that's why Bill spoke about modifying the master so that it looks at .pike.o files.
BTW what makes that this byte-compiled code is not compatible between Pike versions?
Also, is it possible to disassemble this byte-compiled code?
/ David