From: Mark Hahn <mchahn@...>
Date: 2002-01-07T14:07:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30436] Re: snippet exchange (was: Re:  Re:    chomp for arrays?)

A person could use this however they want.  I personally want to be able to
say net_require 'xxx'.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Dempsey" <dabigdemp@hotmail.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 8:37 PM
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
>
> --------------------------------------"it's like this"-------------------
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> dan@sidhe.org                         have teddy bears and even
>                                       teddy bears get drunk
>
>