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Jason Smith commented on COUCHDB-1867:
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The blacklist exists so you can specify which plugins to load at run time
rather than at build time.
In other words, simply placing a plugin in that directory activates the plugin;
but what if you want to disable the plugin? Worse, what if you run multiple
instances of CouchDB on the same machine, from the same installation?
Iris Couch has a plugin, cgi_couchdb, where you can put CGI scripts in your
design document, and run arbitrary CGI applications in CouchDB. Obviously that
is only enabled for trusted users.
If there was a way to activate/deactivate plugins from the config, I would be
happy to see the blacklist go. Mostly I implemented it this way because my
Bash-fu was stronger than my Erlang-fu at the time.
> Plugins
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> Key: COUCHDB-1867
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1867
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Jan Lehnardt
> Assignee: Jan Lehnardt
> Priority: Minor
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> It should be easy to install CouchDB plugins.
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