From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Recognizing obsolete external package versions Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:28:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4gsl6nhoux.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187051148 10627 80.91.229.12 (14 Aug 2007 00:25:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:25:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 14 02:25:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IKkE8-0007yo-20 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:25:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IKkE7-00080a-IC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:25:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKkDQ-0007es-HM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:24:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKkDM-0007dY-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:24:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IKkDM-0007dU-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IKkDM-0004zq-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IKkGh-000350-5I; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:28:19 -0400 In-reply-to: <4gsl6nhoux.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:31:50 -0400) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76483 Archived-At: 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.