On Sep 25, 2006, at 5:38 AM, Ryan Duff wrote:

On a side note, I don't even use the plugin, but am confused to hell as
to why you would just removed something then give no reason as to why
and no reasoning as to why it shouldn't still be included.

He explained it briefly in the commit:

"This has been a source of security probs, and is mostly replaced by the XML import/export now."

See here, for the Trunk fix for one such security problem:

http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4095

I'm not defending or debating the decision, I just want to get those bits of information out there before tempers flare.

--
Mark Jaquith
http://txfx.net/


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