Stef, One argument made against it has been (lack of) security of the resulting image. There was also discussion of providing a command line option to suppress FFI if desired, so I think I would take both suggestions: include FFI (and/or Alien[*]) and address security concerns by allowing FFI to be disabled as the VM is launched.
[*] I like the idea of being able to do callbacks in Smalltalk code, but I have also seen some mention that callouts to functions are not all that slick in Alien?? Right now, Alien might as well not exist in my world, because we have not been able to run it on Linux :( So far, I do not really have an opinion on whether it is a better way to go than FFI. As it is, we have some way to go before catching up with Dolphin; whether or not Alien is part of the answer, I can't say. Bill -----Original Message----- From: pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Stéphane Ducasse Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 2:31 PM To: Pharo Development Subject: [Pharo-project] FFI in 1.1 Hi all Do we add FFI by default in 1.1? This was the plan so. Stef _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
