With 2.1.0 imminent, we'll need to finalise on this soon - are the current options satisfactory?

Cheers,
Brett

On 24/02/2009, at 1:41 AM, Brett Porter wrote:


On 23/02/2009, at 4:45 PM, Oleg Gusakov wrote:



Brett Porter wrote:


I don't view this as a temporary measure - as my second comment said, you may need a password to get the plugin in the first place. How would you address this case?

I have never seen an environment where read-only access to central or central replica is authenticated. Short of that it's just another plugin to be downloaded and used. Or I completely missed the question?

That's right, it's the situation I was thinking of. I was thinking along the lines of a vetted repository where direct use of central is not used. It's maybe still unlikely that would be authenticated, but I wouldn't rule it out.

Thinking it through, to me this actually feels a more natural fit in the CLI now, along with the other settings-based operations, pretty much symmetrical with the location of the operation to decode the passwords in the settings file. For a user, manipulation of the settings file is generally a set-up task, before you do anything else. This location also makes it very snappy, not going through the whole plugin cycle, and had very little impact on the code since it was already mostly achieved through the sec-dispatcher and cipher. A plugin for this would see infrequent releases - perhaps none - which seems an odd evolutionary cycle for an independent piece of code.

Not that tied to it being in the CLI if a suitable replacement is already in place, but I hope this is somewhat convincing :)

Cheers,
Brett

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