Re: Fwd: Gimp Registry Future

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Hi!

2014-04-09 14:14 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Prokoudine <
alexandre.prokoudine@xxxxxxxxx>:

> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Ingo Lütkebohle wrote:
> > Alexander,
> >
> > the Registry currently has support for uploading binary plugins, so those
> > could be downloaded over the interface as well.
> >
>
> 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.

Regards
Tobias
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