At 12:37 PM -0700 on 7/10/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
>> Anthony : Please head over to
>> <http://ufp.uqam.ca/OpenCard/BugTracker/bug.cgi> and
>> see what I put together. It could be quite helpful
>> to us in the future.
>
>Alain : Good work. But please notify me next time, though, when you're
>installing "dangerous" stuff like a alpha release of a CGI written in
>PERL (for instance).
Should not be any more dangerous than alpha releases written in HyperCard
or AppleScript. Perl, like the above two, is (essentially) interpreted. You
have to try to crash it (and of course I test them on my machine, first).
Dangerous stuff would be, for example, C or maybe Perl that calls some of
the MacOS stuff.
>
>> Anthony : It's not quite done yet, so don't put it to
>> serious use. The data will wind up zapped when the
>> final version is done.
>
>Alain : Hopefully it won't crash the server. So far so good.
>
>Alain : P.S.: *** These remarks concerning dangerous installations
>apply to everyone ***
>
>> Anthony : 100% perl. Let's see someone do _that_ with
>> AppleScript :)
>
>Alain : I smell a challenge brewing. I could indeed do a similar
>program with AppleScript. Do you want to up the degree of difficulty of
>the challenge, or shall I ? :)
I think we can both up the degree of difficulty. I'm going to put in
administration, automatic emailing of bug reports, etc. (I can get the
email working so long as your EIMS can send. ). And Perl has real password
facilities... so, you're on!
