Anthony Ventimiglia anthony@ventimiglia.org writes:
Nikodemus Siivola writes:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:03:36AM -0500, Anthony Ventimiglia wrote:
That said, wearing my voting hat:
I don't know.
How important is it to you? Is this "vital", or "kind of neat"?
How much overhead for Erik (on the long run)? If we do this, will it generate good infrastructure that can be utilized in the future, or will it be a wart on the system?
I agree with both your questions and answers.
Me too.... :)
In my previous post I gave some of the potential problems, which are no more of a risk than running CGI scripts. So it's a matter of trusting users who write clhp pages, and as I said before, I don't see why any of us would have malicious intents regarding the common-lisp.net server. If you guys are still uncomfortable with that, we can restrict the clhp-handler to only work in selected directories.
The problem is not necessarily one of us doing malicious things intentionally (I guess that goes without saying :-) ) but unintentionally by screwing up (c.f. Murphy's Law). So yes, it has to be sandboxed.
As far as the infrastructure, I think that it would be a benifit to us all to have it available on the server. Sure we could use PHP to provide the same functionality, but I'd assume that most of us would rather use Lisp than PHP.
Yes, that is true.
Regards, Mario.