There's also a problem of control. You're assuming that all releases are compatible with Drupal. In TinyMCE's case, not all of Moxiecode's releases have been "Drupal friendly" . You'd actually need a third server/service to ping the URL of the most recent approved releases of external code.
<br><br>This idea was floated during the "no third party code" discussion back in May (my summary of that discussion - <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/3364#comment-12473">http://groups.drupal.org/node/3364#comment-12473
</a>). Derek Wright did a great job of outlining the issues with this approach and was very clear that he was not going to write scripts to do this. (<a href="http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2007-May/024045.html">
http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2007-May/024045.html</a>)<br>
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<p><span style=""><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Kevin Reynen</span></strong></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
Integrated Media Coordinator<br>
Reynolds School of Journalism and<br>
Advanced Media Research<br>
University of Nevada, Reno</span></span></p><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sean Robertson</b> <<a href="mailto:seanr@ngpsoftware.com">seanr@ngpsoftware.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That's a very good idea from a usability standpoint, but a problem for<br>security. Any such feature would need to show the user what was about
<br>to be downloaded with an appropriately stern warning and offer them the<br>opportunity to kill it.<br><br><br>adrian rossouw wrote:<br>><br>> On 11 Sep 2007, at 6:54 PM, Fernando Silva wrote:<br>><br>>>
<br>>> I add to it the thought that this module could provide a way to<br>>><br>>> select, show and install jquery plugins from the oficial jquery<br>>><br>>> plugins page and "install time"!
<br>>><br>><br>> How useful it that <a href="http://jquery.com">jquery.com</a> is running the project module then.<br>><br>> Do we know if their cvs tags are using something that project can use?<br>> because you could probably extend/ use the code of update_status to do
<br>> that for you.<br>><br>> just have it ping a different server, with the extra function to install<br>> the module.<br>><br>> This could actually be a cool solution to the tinymce problem too.<br>> If a module could initialize a download of the lib from it's .install,
<br>><br><br>--<br>Sean Robertson<br>Web Developer<br>NGP Software, Inc.<br><a href="mailto:seanr@ngpsoftware.com">seanr@ngpsoftware.com</a><br>(202) 686-9330<br><a href="http://www.ngpsoftware.com">http://www.ngpsoftware.com
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