How about not modularizing and thus not having to make a trade off. How about not screwing up the server for months just because you are itchting for busy work.
--- Yann Chachkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nothing currently prevents a plugin to modify the > data it has access to > directly - but of course, that's unsafe access, so > if the plugin makes a bad > modification to the data, or forgets to notify the > server of it if necessary, > then it will probably crash the server. Accessing > data directly or through > wrappers is basically a tradeoff between > performances and security. > > In the case of modularization of the existing code, > I'd say that direct access > wherever possible should be kept - accessors for > such data modifications > would probably be used only for debugging purposes > (as a wrapper can check if > the data modification is "legal" or not, and thus > can help detecting a whole > range of errors). > > -- > Yann Chachkoff > ----------------------- > Garden Dwarf's Best Friend > ----------------------- > GPG Key : > http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/export?id=9080288987474372064 > Fingerprint: 6616 2E02 BAD2 4AEF C90A F1EB 7E03 > AAB9 844D 25E0 > > _______________________________________________ > crossfire mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
