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[xtr33me]

I am wanting to create a distributable for other developers to use but I would also like to hide the logic. I have seen other questions like this asked a few years back and the answer was no. I was hoping that perhaps the answer to this has changed and just wanted to see if I could get any updates. Also is there any recommended obfuscation tools for roku's brightscript? Any help or info would be great. Thanks!

[EnTerr]

If by "create a binary [...] distributable for other developers to use" you mean complete app, publishing a "private channel" will be a way to go.
If you mean a library (in the sense of .lib/.dll/.so) to use in other apps - then no.
I don't know of any obfuscation tools existing for B/S.

[destruk]

When a channel is packaged, it is 'obfuscated' - the resulting pkg file is encrypted. You probably don't want to obfuscate your own internal source code - that is a bad idea because it makes it more difficult for someone else in your own organization from updating or adding functionality to your own internal codebase if the need arises in the future, or if you need to go back and look over how you made it work to begin with.

[xtr33me]

Thanks to the both of you for the reply. As stated above, we wish to provide a script for other devs to use for but we do not wish our source to be easily readable. As with js code, if you have enough time, you can figure out what is goign on, but I don't care to make it easy. A brightscript obfuscator would be nice, however I have not had any luck getting something to work. I tried running through some of our current tools and nothing has worked easily with BS. Guess I will see what other avenues I might be able to go down. Thanks again.

[RokuJoel]

Unfortunately, there is no way to do this at present, but it would be an excellent feature, I'll write it up.

- Joel