Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > FFI has (it seems to me) long been viewed as an evil in the Squeak > community. I have no idea whether that is justified, but I have to > say that the analogous features in Dolphin have been essential.
The motiviation behind not including FFI in the "standard" image was security. FFI allows you to circumvent the Squeak sandbox. Which is only really interesting for Squeak applications that download untrusted code from somewhere (e.g. etoys projects). > > Unless there is a very good reason to exclude it, I would ask for FFI > in 1.0. For myself, the next big hurdle is underscores, largely > because so many of the external entities to which I would be mapping > contain them. I would support that, if it wasn't for Alien, which should be replacing FFI any time now :-) Michael _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
