From: Jack Dempsey <dabigdemp@...>
Date: 2002-01-07T13:37:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30431] Re: snippet exchange (was: Re:  Re:    chomp for arrays?)

The way i was thinking of this working would be this: someone has heard of a
good library to use but doesn't want to spend the time finding it
downloading etc...this little function will do it...basically, automate the
process of finding, downloading and using...not very ambitious,and it would
definitely need to be well thought out, but i think the idea could be useful
in the end...perhaps a function that searches for a module and downloads it
but doens't require it at the same time...whatever it is, this discussion
can only help...

Jack

I'm not saying don't do this. What I am saying is that there are a number
of potential vulnerabilities that you can't close, and a few you introduce.
It's something that needs to be considered very carefully before
implementing, and a feature that probably ought to be off by default.

> > the potential checks out of the process. (FWIW, I considered this and
> > discarded it for parrot. It's the sort of thing I'd not allow to be
> > installed on a system I administered)
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:dan@sidhe.org]
> > > > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 9:38 PM
> > > > To: ruby-talk ML
> > > > Subject: [ruby-talk:30401] Re: snippet exchange (was: Re: Re:
> > chomp for
> > > > arrays?)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > At 06:31 AM 1/7/2002 +0900, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >A daydream of mine is a "super-require" that if the file was not
> > > > found, the
> > > > >loader would go to a central place on the web and load it
> > (sort of like
> > > > >marimba).  I don't tend to use other people's modules just
> > > > because I'm too
> > > > >lazy to find and install them.
> > > >
> > > > That's a rather dangerous thing to implement. There are an
> > awful lot of
> > > > security issues there...


Dan

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