Scripsit Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Don't tell me that 631 lines of C code is too much.
It is, when there is no infrastructure to run C code at all.
> Gee, isn't it nice that we can modify the TeX engine?
One cannot, when the boundary conditions are that one wants to produce
a program that will run on any TeX implementation - especially when
one is not in the business of maintaining even one TeX implementation
beforehand.
> > which is presently separate from LaTeX, which is a Good Thing) it
> > would open up quite disturbing new security perspectives, for
> > instance.
> I seriously doubt that there would be any new security problems.
I imagined that you wanted to add a command to run md5sum as a
separate binary. That *would* open op loads of security concerns.
> I think you're blowing this out of proportion.
Would you think it would be blowing things out of proportion too if
Linus rejected a kernel patch that depended on its very own private
extension to the C language, with a companion extension patch that must
be applied to GCC before the new kernel could be compiled?
--
Henning Makholm "You want to know where my brain is,
spetsnaz girl? Do you? Look behind you."
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