encrypting script-only stacks

[Kaveh Bazargan]

The benefits of SoS are so important that I would hate to have to go back
to binary again. Nothing like having pure text files to version, back up
etc. so I am also hoping for an elegant solution to encode these in
standalone.

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 17:31, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Sure, and with the extra benefit that you wouldn't have to expose your
> code to end-users.
>
> That is, unless there's a way to include SoS in a standalone that
> includes encryption, such as an automated method in the Standalone Builder.
>
> I couldn't find one, but it seems like such a pervasive issue for the
> class of devs most likely to use SoS (pros dependent on VCS) that I'm
> hoping I just missed something.
>
> --
>   Richard Gaskin
>   Fourth World Systems
>
>
> Jacque wrote:
>
>  > Wouldn't a binary script-only stack be the library stack we already
>  > have now?
>  > --
>  > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>  >
>  > On January 14, 2020 9:55:01 AM Richard Gaskin wrote:
>  >
>  >> Since script-only stacks contain only a script with no properties,
>  >> they have no password property, and thus cannot be encrypted.
>  >>
>  >> I had thought that including them in the Stacks pane of the
>  >> Standalone Builder might convert them to binary substacks, where
>  >> the password could apply.  No dice.
>  >>
>  >> Is it a bug that script-only stacks can't be imported into the
>  >> stackfile to become binary substacks?
>  >>
>  >> --
>  >>  Richard Gaskin
>  >>  Fourth World Systems
>
>
>
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