[GRASS-dev] Handling of Python scripts on MS Windows

[Newcomb, Doug]

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Sören Gebbert <
> soerengebbert at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > On MS Windows, users do have a free choice of what they install. Third
>> > party software packages are on MS Windows completely independent of
>> > each other. If you don't like this, you have to change the MS Windows
>> > world first, then GRASS.
>> >
>> > On MS Windows, GRASS and a system-wide Python installation are third
>> > party software packages that are completely independent of each other.
>>
>> In my Institute the user do not have the free choice of what they
>> can install on their windows machines.
>> There are guidelines what software and version is allowed to be
>> installed. There are Institution specific software repositories that
>> must be used.
>> All software must be installed by the system administrator, user do
>> not have any permissions
>> to do this them self. This is for security and maintenance reasons.
>>
>> I think this is very common in companies and public institutions. I
>> know several companies with much more restrictive guideline (no
>> internet connection, USB sticks not allowed, ...). So you can't expect
>> that
>> user have a free choice.
>>
>
> Hi, I don't understand how this actually influence whether GRASS should
> have Python inside or outside. For user there is no difference since it
> should be managed by sysadmin, so what is sysadmin's decision process?
>

1) does it introduce any security risks ( open ports, install remotely
accessible services, change system file/directory permissions, etc)?
2) does it require administrative access to run ( i.e, write access to
install directories under c:\Program Files by normal users is generally
prohibited) ?
3) does it break existing software?
4) does it perform useful tasks ?

Doug



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