From: "Dmitry V. Sabanin" <sdmitry@...>
Date: 2004-08-15T16:16:00+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyForge project and gem distriubtion

On Sunday 15 August 2004 14:39, David Ross wrote:
> > Richard, aside of all that RubyGems security/design
> > flaws flame, I want to thank you and Tom
> > for that feature. I'm releasing a third Gem via
> > RubyForge, and it's really a time-saving thingy.
> > Thanks guys, great job.
> >
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> > sdmitry -=- Dmitry V. Sabanin
> > MuraveyLabs.
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>
> Flame? no critique, you don't care about your
> security. I do. Theres a difference. Easiness over
> security is a bad design. Someone is going to end up
> making an example. I just hope nothing happens as bad
> as ruby-lang.org crack attack.
Oh, sorry.. I do care. But the fact that I care means that I prefer to check
the code I use by myself. AFAIK, RubyGems is not auto-updating packages 
from net without my control, so I always have a choice to install package or not.

<flame>
P.S. I'm not going to discuss this, this thread reminds me an old argument of 
proprietary software fans that's always used against open source.
If you think that RubyGems, RPA or Ruby offends security of your server,
just rm -Rf it.
Anyway, the most secure server is the one without network interface and even so,
someone can throw it out of the window.
</flame>

Let's stop this thread. I've mailed Rich to say thankyou and you came here with
same things that you already said zillion times before.
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sdmitry -=- Dmitry V. Sabanin
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