From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recognizing obsolete external package versions
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:28:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IKkGh-000350-5I@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4gsl6nhoux.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:31:50 -0400)
I don't see the problem with eval, given that we write the code that
gets evalled, and this feature would not be for external use. If you
are worried about malicious code in the filed being loaded, well, it's
already been loaded at this point, so if it wanted to do anything
nasty it could have done so directly without needing to go through
this mechanism. No different to any other external package.
It is cleaner to make the code more specific.
For instance, issuing a warning in a standard way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-14 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-31 20:22 Recognizing obsolete external package versions Richard Stallman
2007-08-10 21:15 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-10 21:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-08-10 22:18 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-11 0:24 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-12 4:15 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-12 4:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-13 0:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-13 1:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-14 0:28 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-14 7:52 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-13 7:31 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-14 0:28 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-08-13 9:56 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-08-14 0:28 ` Richard Stallman
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2007-08-08 4:54 Richard Stallman
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