[Python-Dev] Re: Capabilities - published interfaces (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat Dec 20 11:39:31 EST 2003

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:55:48AM -0500, Aahz wrote:

Luke:

to some extent, i didn't care about things like class because 1) the users weren't that bright. 2) the user's weren't that hostile. Yup. By "what's the point?" I didn't mean that there were no use cases; the problem is that such cases are not frequent enough to justify the effort. ... which is why i made some recommendations to add in the concept of run-time-defineable public and protected class interfaces. such a concept 1) fits with the principle of capabilities 2) is an enhancement that goes beyond the small requirements of restricted execution 3) offers a means through which rexec can be implemented.

Sure. If we decide to implement restricted execution. As I made clear with my comments about CPU and memory usage, there's still no consensus that adding a restricted execution environment to Python represents a good use of community resources.

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