From: "Michael van der Gulik" mikevdg@gmail.com Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers listsqueak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Re: Smalltalk bounty (Re: Squeak and Namespaces) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:03:40 +1300
...or you could save your money and wait :-). I *need* Namespaces for security in my DPON project. Eventually I'll have some code to show; I worked on it a bit in the weekend, but got pulled away by the rest of life :-(.
I was thinking of more then just namespaces. I was thinking I would throw the question out there, and if enough people said they would donate then we could make a list of what are the biggest priorities that squeak needs and none of us are going to do in the foreseeable future.
My design is roughly as follows. I'm still working on it, so it may change:
Did you look at the Gemstone stuff that I reposted? It sounds like that system is close to your goals and it adds no new syntax (no dot syntax, no colons, just normal message sends afaik). And I think the security of it is nice as well since it looks at the user compiling the code and then makes the link at compile time. If you file out your changes and someone else files them in, it looks like that stuff would get rebuilt so the only security problem would be if you ship the byte codes directly, but I guess they probably have some solution for that.
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