+1

No download was a feature.  AND it helped people with poor practices
learn the value of version control.  :)






On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 08:04, tcg <tomgu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1
>
> On Oct 6, 5:48 am, Greg <g.fawc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 6, 1:28 pm, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <ikai.l+gro...@google.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > - The developer who uploaded an app version can download that version's 
>> > code
>> >   using the appcfg.py download_app command.
>>
>> I'm not at all happy about this. I know how frequent plaintive "I lost
>> my code how can I get it back?" messages are in this group, but the
>> write-only nature of appengine gave me a lot of confidence that our
>> source code is safe. Now a single password is all that stands between
>> our competitors and our IP.
>>
>> Why expose ALL users to risk (and open Google to lawsuits) for the
>> sake of a few inexperienced developers? Star this post if you agree.
>>
>> I guess one solution would be to make downloading optional. A setting
>> to disable source downloading in app.yaml would be safe, because
>> uploading a new version would destroy the existing code.
>>
>> Greg.
>
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