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. -- Regards, Michael GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
