The way the Maxima talks to XMaxima, or any other front end clearly
needs some further thought. (The whole front end needs some further
thought. I keep trying to postpone the issue until some more basic
Maxima functionality is fixed.) Unless someone speaks up, I think we
could disable the remote host capability *for now*, as long as we keep
the option open for the future.
--Jim
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 20:48, Mike Clarkson wrote:
>
> xmaxima is set to talk via sockets to maxima, and the
> feature can be used to talk to a remote maxima server.
> In common usage, maxima and xmaxima are almost always local.
>
> Does anyone use the remote server feature? Leaving aside
> the security issues, I find that the socket code in xmaxima
> is somehwat messy, and has some systematic bugs in it
> (after cancel usage).
>
> Does anyone mind if we drop the remote server feature?
> The code could be cleaned up considerably by using
> a cleaner Tcl [open "|"] approach.
>
> Mike.
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