Re: [Gimp-developer] Fwd: Gimp Registry Future

[Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de>]

On 09.04.2014 14:43, Tobias Jakobs wrote:

> > It's a wee bit more complicated. Think of e.g. security concerns.
> > Sure, you can sit down and analyze the code of every submitted plugin,
> > but this solution is not scalable, and a scalable solution (as in
> > "automated check for exploits") is likely to be expensive.
>
> But this is not a new problem. If you at the moment download anything from
> the registry and install it, it could destroy your system. This should not
> stop us from improving it.

Part of the problem right now is that there is no coordinated effort to
get "official" binaries for plug-ins assigned to these - so any binary
done by anyone and either uploaded a a separate entity or linked in the
comments/questions is happily accepted and downloaded be the users.


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Regards,
Michael
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