On May 25, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Grant Rettke wrote:
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Abdulaziz Ghuloum
<[email protected]> wrote:
I don't think ikarus (or any software really) should
be writing stuff to your file system without you explicitly giving
permission...
As a means for providing "quality of service", VIM writes a tmp file.
Its intention is not malicious it just wants to fulfill its duty.
Having Ikarus write compiled libs will make it run faster; thus
fulfiling its duty.
I kinda buy that. :-)
For example, I get
many libraries for testing purposes, and if every time I use one
such library, it gets compiled and cached indefinitely, I *think*
that would be a serious problem.
A problem because hard disks are too small? ;) Or because it violates
some ethics?
No. I just want to make sure that I'm not doing "the wrong thing"
and that people have to go out of their way to fix it. This is why
we're having this discussion---just to be sure.
Aziz,,,
