[Scilab-Dev] Pseudo code

[Florent LEBEAU]

Dear Nicolas,
Indeed, such a possibility does not exist in Scilab currently. However, 
because of the reasons you mentioned, there is a wish to implement such 
a tool. This would help Scilab achieve further development. The team is 
working on this subject. We might be heading towards a solution using 
cryptographic means.
If you have any suggestions or requests, feel free to contact me.
Best regards,

Florent Lebeau



Nicolas FEZANS a écrit :
> Dear dev people,
>
> I was wondering (concerning a possible toolbox development) whether
> there exists any possibility for making pseudo-code (more or less like
> the .p file of Matlab) with Scilab (my guess is no). If no, is it part
> of any planning or even development wish?
>
> I know that pseudo-code is not really in the spirit of open-source
> community, but not having this kind of possibility will clearly
> prevent a lot of developments from being made on Scilab and that could
> lead to some high quality freely accessible (but not open-source)
> toolboxes that could then been converted later into open-source
> project. Some of the best open-source programs were indeed non
> open-source project before (e.g. Firefox, OpenOffice,... ;-) ).
> Long-term interest for open-source project is not necessarily to
> prevent such contributions by adopting too restrictive rules. Indeed
> one cannot prevent contributions from being made accessible in any
> compiled form, the only difference is that cross-platform
> compatibilities will probably be quite bad.
>
> Of course there is also the technical aspect on how to implement such
> a possibility within an open-source project. If a piece of code in
> open-source makes the conversion between the pseudo-code and normal
> Scilab code or if the encrypted code is stored in memory without any
> protection, pseudo-codes won't really be protected (what can be read,
> can be copied!).
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Nicolas
>