On 1 August 2017 at 01:25, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote: > Christian Ridderström wrote: > > Please note that I'm _not_ wholly against something like needauth, I'm > simply > > not convinced it's good enough. In fact, I'm still unclear on exactly > how it > > currently works, or perhaps rather, how it's intended to work in LyX 2.3. > > I already wrote you possible ways how we can cement the current situation > more > and IIRC you did not picked any.
Would you mind pointing me to that post? I don't know if I simply missed it or was unable to read/consider/reply at the time. Meanwhile Tommaso committed patch which is > slightly improving situation by "scary dialog". I did not hear your > reaction to > it either. > As you noticed in a later post, I did react to that. > > > Even after all discussion I still see adding the whole needauth > machinery > > > as unnecessary complication of code and UI; possible future use of > pygments > > > still seems as made up argument for the sake of discussion rather than > real > > > user demand. > > > > Would you mind clarifying why needauth is an "unneccessary complication > of > > code and UI"? (Apologies as I'm likely asking you to repeat what you've > said > > previously). > > I meant extending needauth mechanisms beyond current gnuplot/knitr usage > for the sake of minted, because I believe minted maintainer will deliver > us fix within couple months. > Ok, I understand what you mean. > With such sight in view, I would be just fine to let minted support in > current fashion, tell people clearly in manual that adding --shell-escape > is dangerous, let Uwe scream at us little bit and then be done with it. > Ok. Guess it comes down to the number of expected minted users. If not very high, it's a good enough solution. If there'd be lots of minted users, risk increase that they accidentally leave --shell-escape in place. /Christian
