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Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade
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Matthias Dahl |
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Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade |
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Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:02:41 +0200 |
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Hello Bastien...
> don't forget those out there who are not educated at all in computer
> science and who picked up Lisp just because they loved Emacs. I don't
> think this is such a minority, and this may explain why many security
> concerns (for which you *need* to study computer science), may have
> been overlooked while Emacs was progressing.
Interesting argument. Since Lisp is not such a common language imho and
not quite so easy to learn, I never would have guessed that people
without any kind of technical background did actually choose to give
Lisp a shot just because they liked Emacs.
But actually this should not affect the core code of Emacs itself - at
all. That audience with a limited Lisp skillset should not get repo
write access in the first place and everything handed in as a patch gets
through the community review process and is commented upon. So there is
a nice learning process for the Lisp initiate and QA for the stuff that
gets into Emacs.
Or am I overlooking something here?
So long,
Matthias
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- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/23
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Matthias Dahl, 2013/09/25
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/25
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Matthias Dahl, 2013/09/25
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Bastien, 2013/09/25
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade,
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- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Bastien, 2013/09/27
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Matthias Dahl, 2013/09/27
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Bastien, 2013/09/27
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Matthias Dahl, 2013/09/27
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/25
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Matthias Dahl, 2013/09/26
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Óscar Fuentes, 2013/09/26
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/26
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Matthias Dahl, 2013/09/27
- Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/27