Re: updaters
Re: updaters
- Subject: Re: updaters
- From: Dodger <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:01:43 -0800
2009/2/17 Crawford Kyle <email@hidden>:
> Well said Greg.
>
> I've been thinking about this. Is there a way Apple could disallow these
> arbitrary installer scripts and still support the scenarios that seem to
> require them? Perhaps this warrants a separate thread.
If you mean disallow any external scripts, well, there's a reason
they're allowed: to allow for things they haven't foreseen. I know my
problem would be very unlikely to be handled in the packagemaker app,
for instance (i.e. applying a morph target to an Alias Wavefront Maya
object file and saving out the results). If Apple foresaw that need,
they probably *still* wouldn't include the possibility because it
would be so rare.
On the other hand, if you mean disallowing doing specific certain
things, well, then that becomes an arms race. You disallow wget, they
include a perlscript that uses LWP. You block outgoing fetches to port
80, they set up a proxy server on their own site to redirect from a
different port. Etc etc. You block all offsite access, you may very
well outlaw a perfectly valid approach to fetching the latest update
patch and applying it.
--
Dodger
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