Stand alone build like adobe air

Solar2D Daily Builds and Public Releases
#1

Hello Ansca,

I was wondering if Corona will ever gain the ability to do local builds like adobe air/flex does? The one problem I have that is the worst for me to swallow is the fact that I don’t really control my own “destiny” with Corona because I totally depend on their website to be up and operational for as long as I intend to use the platform and build products usuing it…

I also feel slightly squeamish about sending my IP over the web into their servers in order to get a compiled result. I am a tools type of guy, and I want my tools to be secure in that I can go soup to nuts development->distro without involving third parties between me and my final code (apple is way bad enough in this regard).

I looked around on the forums and didn’t see any posting like this one, so either I am totally weird about this or I missed the forum where it gets spelled out by Corona. If I just missed it, sorry for duplication of issue. But otherwise, I would really like to hear the longer term plans for this going into the future…

Regards,

Paul @tamarac apps
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#2

well, i’m pretty sure this will never happen, since this way is the best to prevent software piracy.
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#3

Concerning your IP, we actually compile your Lua scripts on your computer without transmitting them first. We don’t get/transmit copies of your (human readable) scripts so neither us nor somebody snooping the network can read your source code.
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#4

Thanks for the replies re. security and IP. So my artwork is not sent up to the server, or does the whole package, artwork and sounds and all go up there?

Does Corona maintain projects on their site for any reason at all? Or is the project immediately erased after compile and appification?

Regards,

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#5

Images and other assets are also not transmitted to the server. (Some people have hundreds of megabytes so we don’t really want to transmit these assets.)

We may keep intermediate package build components around on our servers temporarily, mostly for debugging purposes when things go wrong. But we never have a complete/final package that we can run. We lack your assets and we lack your code signing keys.
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