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How, if at all, are you going to protect the ruby source code?

I'e written something called rbyte which byte compiles Ruby 1.9.2 code: http://github.com/maccman/rbyte

Eventually I'll integrate it into Bowline so your source code will get compiled automatically.

Thanks for your answer. I'm very excited about the project, esp. with a future server sync api (as mentioned in the roadmap). Perhaps I then could finally write a decent evernote client for linux. :)

The sync API has already been released: http://github.com/maccman/syncro - I'm also just about to release the JavaScript version of the client (so you can have realtime sync between web and desktop apps.

Will there be some deb/rpm packaging tool included?

There will be. At the moment though, linux support is very basic. There's no automatic packaging. When it comes to packaging and distribution, the mac version is more developed.

Oh, very nice.