Re: Feasibility of system() plugin?

[Zbigniew Chyla <cyba gnome pl>]

On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 12:09:14, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> EEP NO!
> That has several flaws.
> 1) Security
> 2) Security
> 3) Security
> ...
> 98) We'd want some parsing info on how to parse the results.
> 99) The interface would need some work to define refresh handling
> (polling interval vs monitoring a file for a change)
>
> This type of operation is common enough that we will add the notion
> of an external data source to gnumeric.  However, I have not given it
> much consideration yet.

Some time ago I tried to implement plugin loader for plugins using XML-RPC
protocol. You couldn't create very complex functions using XML-RPC, but for
simple tasks (like retrieving share prices) it would work very well.
This way you could also do calculations on remote machine.


Zbigniew