Re: ANNOUNCE: Inline 0.23 (Mix Perl and C w/o XS)

[Graham Barr]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 05:26:18PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> > Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >Wow. I'm sold. Can this be how we should be doing XS in Perl 6?
> > So we now run equivalent of xsubpp and cc every time script is run?
> 
> No.  The documentation states that the compilation is done only when the
> source file is out of date with the companion object file.  As I
> understand it, Inline has some kind of limited automatic make ability.

So it is a security issue then as it needs somewhere to cache these
object files, and anyone must be able to do it.

I had the same issue with Include.pm which was a run-time replacement
for h2ph

Graham.