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[ChunLing]

Generally the base install is things that are going to be used by most people (at some point). This strikes me as something that will be used by relatively few people, and I suspect that many of them would prefer writing their own implementation, since one of the intended features is to provide a degree of system security (having a standard version would tend to defeat that).

[immibis]

ChunLing, on 02 February 2013 - 07:37 PM, said:

Generally the base install is things that are going to be used by most people (at some point). This strikes me as something that will be used by relatively few people, and I suspect that many of them would prefer writing their own implementation, since one of the intended features is to provide a degree of system security (having a standard version would tend to defeat that).

I thought of it as only a convenience thing. You can't stop other programs from reading and writing your files anyway, without overriding fs.

[Alekso56]

herp, HTTP API anyone?

[tesla1889]

Alekso56, on 03 February 2013 - 03:22 AM, said:

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what, use it to post the NVRAM online?

[tesla1889]

question: is there any way for rom programs to edit other rom files?

EDIT: stupid question, rom is shared by all computers, nvm

[Cloudy]

Nope. Can be made in pure Lua.

[immibis]

Cloudy, on 04 February 2013 - 12:07 AM, said:

Nope. Can be made in pure Lua.

Why do we have io and disk and colours and gps and keys and parallel and rednet and textutils and vector?

[Cloudy]

For ease of use. The answer is no - what would be the point when persistence is planned eventually? I'm not going to add something like this purely because people can't/won't make it/download it themselves.

[tesla1889]

Cloudy, on 04 February 2013 - 01:11 AM, said:

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persistence is planned eventually
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oh, really?
nvm then, that's exactly what i need. cool beans, bro.