On 6/23/11, Justin Wood (Callek) <[email protected]> wrote: > I just wanted to make you all aware of a user-facing change I am being > forced to make for SeaMonkey 2.2 > > The idea is I'd either not make it, or risk keeping users exposed to > security risks far longer than should be the case. > > Bug 666518 (PLEASE respond only here unless you are helping to FIX the > bug, advocacy will be fine in newsgroups/e-mail but not bug, thank you) > > I will be removing the Windows Installers' ability to selectively > install extensions. > > The codepaths that make the packaging of the installer able to support > this feature are very complex, and apparantly quite easy to break. While > removing the ability entirely (user facing anyway) is as simple as > dropping one variable in a makefile we control. > > I do have ideas on how I can restore the basic functionality offered by > this installer feature, but it won't be until 2.5 at the earliest I can > get that working, and I have no guarantees as I have not looked deeply > into it yet. But I feel that my efforts to support a very complex system > here which HAVE to coexist with the Firefox systems and are only growing > in complexity as of late, are better spent supporting other aspects of > SeaMonkey and doing bug fixing/stability/releng on a wider scale. > > After reading that bug, if you have any > comments/complaints/show-of-support or suggestions, please feel free to > state them here.
show-of-support: thank you for continuing to work on SeaMonkey After looking at the bug report I'm no closer to understanding what the security risks are, but if all it means is I have to do another step or three to uninstall extensions that I don't want vs. some security issue.. I think you made the right decision. Thanks again, Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
