Re: pengines extension to html_requires

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/09/2014 03:01 PM, Torbjörn Lager wrote:
...
>> Having said that, since you are the maintainer of the whole of
>> SWI-Prolog and its libraries, I think you should have the final say
>
> That is my weakness :-(  You have convinced me that pengines are
> a great idea.  Only, your implementation was a bit flawed where it
> came to resource management and security ...  Guess that is the
> role of a Prof vs. a PhD :-)

That's one way to put it. :-) For sure, pengines would never have
become reliable and secure if you hadn't stepped in, so convincing you
was really necessary!

>> here. I'm happy either way. We can always add predicates without
>> options if we find that people want them.
>
> I'll throw them out.  It is easy to put them back in, but hard to
> throw them out later.

Ok, unless my little experiment with interactive programming with
pengines has convinced you that predicates without options may still
be a good idea. Sorry I thought about that argument a bit too late...

Cheers,
Torbjörn

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Torbjörn Lager
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Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science
University of Gothenburg
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