KernelImage plans, namespaces, security, ???

J J azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 15 12:06:45 UTC 2007


Well my understanding was Pavel's work was going to be the basis for future 
Squeak images to build on, so personally I would be for forking.


>From: Michael van der Gulik <squeakml at gulik.co.nz>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: KernelImage plans, namespaces, security, ???
>Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:46:45 +1300
>
>They're all major architectural changes so they wouldn't be an option.
>
>Personally I think a fork would be best, but I'd like to hear what Pavel's 
>plans or intentions are for KernelImage.
>
>Michael.
>
>J J wrote:
>>You want the Kernel image to do these things you listed, or just have them 
>>as an option?
>>
>>
>>>From: "Michael van der Gulik" <mikevdg at gmail.com>
>>>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>>>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>>To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>>>list"<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>>Subject: KernelImage plans, namespaces, security, ???
>>>Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:33:51 +1300
>>>
>>>Hi all, especially Pavel.
>>>
>>>What are your long-term plans for KernelImage?
>>>
>>>I'm working on a more secure version of squeak, and KernelImage looks 
>>>like a
>>>good starting point.
>>>
>>>Pavel: would you want the following features in KernelImage, most of 
>>>which
>>>would break backwards compatibility:
>>>
>>>- Hierarchical Namespaces,
>>>
>>>- Preventing multiple applications in an image from being able to affect
>>>each other (in terms of excessive memory usage etc),
>>>
>>>- Capability-based security, meaning that core Squeak classes cannot be
>>>modified, devices must be granted access to, etc, enabling you to load
>>>foreign, untrusted code and execute it securely.
>>>
>>>If so, then I'd like to work with you on this. If not, I'll have to fork
>>>KernelImage for my own project.
>>>
>>>I assume you've released KernelImage under the MIT license?
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Michael.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>
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