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Re: What's left to do? [LONG]

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Chris Nandor
Date:
March 22, 2000 05:30
Subject:
Re: What's left to do? [LONG]
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p0431010ab4fe7a05683a@[192.168.0.77]
At 10.23 +0000 2000.03.22, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>> # More work on a safe and secure execution environment
>> # for mobile agents
>>
>> Is Safe not enough? What's left? What about safeperl?
>
>Safe simply doesn't work in its current state.

It does, but not in all cases.  The only problems I saw with Safe in the
exchange with you and Tom is with other packages and requiring and
importing and such.  This is something that needs to be fixed eventually,
but I don't want statements like that above to drive people away from using
Safe to do operations that do work.

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