On 1/16/07, Leonard Mada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > gawk has many advantages and I may point another two: > - it is easy and simple, and very very fast (both to write and execute - > even on huge datasets) > - the code is structured and visible, so it is easy to understand what > it does (this is NOT always the case when you write complex formulas in > the spreadsheet) > > I hope these are enough reasons to implement a simple menu-entry in > gnumeric that runs awk/gawk scripts.
I hope they aren't. While these are good reasons, they don't seem good enough. Currently, I haven't heard of a proposed method that would actually have some security limitations. In order to keep security, you would need to write a gawk plugin for Gnumeric, that can run a limited version of gawk. Otherwise, you're running arbitrary scripts, without any limitations. While this might be convenient for you, I don't see an argument that it would be good in general. I hope that the developers implement this the RIGHT way, if they implement something like this at all. Yours, Uri David Akavia _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
