<div dir="ltr">I understand, Luigi.<div><br></div><div>Will the plug-in be authorized while I create this process? Or do I need to create it before the plugin goes back online?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Pedro</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Luigi Pirelli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luipir@gmail.com" target="_blank">luipir@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Pedro,<br>
<br>
Nothing personal, your case is a common case due the fact to many<br>
cases where to integrate external executables or shared objects.<br>
<br>
we can have a way to certificate this binary (e.g. signing process but<br>
could become harder develop plugins, checksums). In the meantime, I<br>
strongly suggest to a have a two phase plugin. A first phase that<br>
prepare running environment downloading so or dll from someware with<br>
the user consensous, and then the running phase.<br>
<br>
in this way you can facilitate users to access plugin thanks to qgis<br>
repo, and turn around plugin limitations that community gave for user<br>
security.<br>
<span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 19 December 2016 at 08:25, Pedro Camargo <<a href="mailto:veigacamargo@gmail.com">veigacamargo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Luigi and Paolo,<br>
><br>
> I corrected the problems you pointed out with AequilibraE and<br>
> re-uploaded it.<br>
><br>
> Luigi's concern with malicious code is a very valid one, and I would<br>
> actually appreciate to have a manner to have it checked. However, I would<br>
> appreciate if we could find a solution that does not prevent us from having<br>
> plugins that are compiled.<br>
><br>
> As Luigi pointed out, the code is written in Cython to increase performance<br>
> of the software, but it is still 5.5x slower than the proprietary software<br>
> that I used as a benchmark. In a nutshell, if it cannot be compiled, it will<br>
> never fly. So I would ask you guys to be considerate of this point.<br>
><br>
> My concerns might not even be valid, and I do apologize if that is the case.<br>
> I just must admit that, as an amateur software developer, I miss some of the<br>
> jargon used here when talking about more technical issues on software<br>
> development.<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Pedro<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Luigi Pirelli <<a href="mailto:luipir@gmail.com">luipir@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi List<br>
>><br>
>> The Binary problem (?):<br>
>> In this recently added plugin I can find cython modules precompiled in<br>
>> forms odf pyd, or so. (and relative cython code)<br>
>> Following the presentation in: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz3jbM_JBTo" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=zz3jbM_JBTo</a><br>
>> I understand that the reason is performance, but how to prevent<br>
>> loading malicious shared objects?<br>
>><br>
>> * probably we should start to plan a safe infrastructure to allow<br>
>> uploading plugin with compiled modules... any idea other than a simple<br>
>> checksum?<br>
>><br>
>> The license problem (?):<br>
>> other question is regarding the cython algorithm. I can read in<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://github.com/AequilibraE/AequilibraE/blob/master/aequilibrae/paths/AoN.pyx#L23" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>AequilibraE/AequilibraE/blob/<wbr>master/aequilibrae/paths/AoN.<wbr>pyx#L23</a><br>
>> "Codes for route ennumeration, DAG construction and Link nesting were<br>
>> written by Pedro Camargo (2013) and have all their rights reserved to<br>
>> the author"<br>
>><br>
>> Obviously the author has right reserved, an in the same code the<br>
>> author refer to the LICENSE.txt that is a standard GPL license:<br>
>> here:<br>
>> <a href="https://github.com/AequilibraE/AequilibraE/blob/master/aequilibrae/paths/AoN.pyx#L18" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>AequilibraE/AequilibraE/blob/<wbr>master/aequilibrae/paths/AoN.<wbr>pyx#L18</a><br>
>> and here:<br>
>> <a href="https://github.com/AequilibraE/AequilibraE/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>AequilibraE/AequilibraE/blob/<wbr>master/LICENSE.TXT</a><br>
>><br>
>> how should we have to read the "right reserved" sencence by the author?<br>
>><br>
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>> Luigi Pirelli<br>
>><br>
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>> On 18 December 2016 at 14:28, <<a href="mailto:noreply@qgis.org">noreply@qgis.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Plugin AequilibraE approval by pcav.<br>
>> > The plugin version "[1102] AequilibraE 0.3.3" is now approved<br>
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