External Libs (was Re: libcurl?!)

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Wed Oct 31 19:08:25 UTC 2001


On Wednesday 31 October 2001 10:09 am, Stephen Pair wrote:
> > But FFI was removed from the Squeak distribution by SqC who
> > feel that it's a
> > security hole and would be a problem for their network
> > distribution of active
> > content.
>
> What's your point?  Just because its not in the SqC distribution doesn't
> mean it can't be used.  Hopefully we'll have a more comprehensive
> approach to security in the future so that this won't be an issue.
> Until then, we could have several different distributions that have
> different objectives.  For instance, SqC might produce bundles that are
> intended for use with active content from the web, where security would
> be a higher priority.

Just that I can't distribute something that uses FFI to the Squeak world and 
expect that they'll be able to run it (unless I also distribute the FFI 
plugin, but I seem to recall that this wasn't sufficient to make it work).

There are even a few Windows and Mac users who can't re-compile their own 
VM's!

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Ned Konz
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