On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:51:27PM +0100, jdd wrote:
> MediaWiki allows us to upload images. Usually this is jpg
> format. Good.
> 
> But we may need some others formats. Two kind of problems
> may arise:
> 
> * security problems. allowing the upload of tgz may have
> various security flaws, for example.
> 
> * opensourceness problems.
> 
> The most used end user file format for documentation is pdf.
> this format can be created by opensource applications (many,
> even kprinter) and read by many opensource programs.

Why would you want to update PDF files. It would be much better to have
the content in the wiki, so people can edit it.

About the tgz files. These should perhaps be placed on the build server.
Small scripts can be put in the text.

houghi
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