[Etoys] how to let activities write to file without risking security

[karl]

Ties Stuij wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Ties Stuij <cjstuij at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > But if someone has a good idea about
>>  >  saving an image and writing to the changes file on the XO, I'm all
>>  >  ears.
>>    If you just want to save your work during development in Squeak,
>>    the setup procedure in
>>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Smalltalk_Development_on_XO might help.
>>     
>
> During development, making the relevant directory world writable
> should be sufficient I guess.
>
>   
>>    I think it is no good to directly overwrite ootb image/change file
>>  on activity directory.
>>     
>
> As a general policy, no. But I just wondered about it in general. The
> situation seems to me to be a bit ugly. Maybe I should just go on and
> do practical stuff though. But it would be useful perhaps when some
> kids might want to start hacking on Squeak level. But maybe not...
>
> /Ties
> ______________
A activity with Squeak would be nice, and even useful :-) It could just 
be the Etoy dev image with write permission.

Karl