Scripsit Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Don't tell me that 631 lines of C code is too much.
It is, when there is no infrastructure to run C code at all. > Gee, isn't it nice that we can modify the TeX engine? One cannot, when the boundary conditions are that one wants to produce a program that will run on any TeX implementation - especially when one is not in the business of maintaining even one TeX implementation beforehand. > > which is presently separate from LaTeX, which is a Good Thing) it > > would open up quite disturbing new security perspectives, for > > instance. > I seriously doubt that there would be any new security problems. I imagined that you wanted to add a command to run md5sum as a separate binary. That *would* open op loads of security concerns. > I think you're blowing this out of proportion. Would you think it would be blowing things out of proportion too if Linus rejected a kernel patch that depended on its very own private extension to the C language, with a companion extension patch that must be applied to GCC before the new kernel could be compiled? -- Henning Makholm "You want to know where my brain is, spetsnaz girl? Do you? Look behind you." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]