From f9d59155425ae7f8111c4c861a4d49a99d36a00f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Ruffles Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:45:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] more accuracy around why to use ASAR 'protect' implies a lot more security than ASAR provides (none). I asked around #2374 to get some understanding of what ASAR does do for you. --- docs/tutorial/application-packaging.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/tutorial/application-packaging.md b/docs/tutorial/application-packaging.md index 0741b2572447..7568204fb62f 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/application-packaging.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/application-packaging.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Application packaging -To protect your app's resources and source code from the users, you can choose +To mitigate [issues](https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6960) around long path names on Windows, slightly speed up `require` and conceal your source code from cursory inspection you can choose to package your app into an [asar][asar] archive with little changes to your source code. @@ -161,3 +161,4 @@ After running the command, apart from the `app.asar`, there is also an should copy it together with `app.asar` when shipping it to users. [asar]: https://github.com/atom/asar +