Bill Schwab writes: > Bryce, > > Thanks for your reply. Actually, I mentioned FFI etc. because that > appeared to be a way to get what OSProcess wanted in terms of > dependencies; using Universes should handle that part for me. > > FFI would be of interest on its own, but appears to make people > nervous. Is that for good reason? Put another way, if I want to make > some calls into a dll/so, do I really need to mess around with > creating/compiling/distributing a plugin? It seems like a lot of > overhead, especially since Dolphin does such a nice job based on a > mechanism very similar (in apperance at least) to FFI. That said, I am > interested in candid opinions; maybe things really are different in > Squeak/Pharo.
FFI is fine, there's a security issue, but that's just the ability to call any dll/so in the system and so perform any action that the user is allowed to do. It's only an issue if you're running untrusted code. Bryce _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
