[ANN] Stacks published on the Web

[J. Landman Gay]

Bernard Devlin wrote:

> Maybe this is going to be a serious problem in distributing apps via
> the plugin.  When someone downloads an app themselves, they
> (generally) don't worry about what it might do to their system.  But
> when the plugin presents a warning dialog like it currently does, it
> might make people reluctant to let the code run, when they would have
> had no worries about running an application they had downloaded
> themselves.

I have to agree that the generic warning is a little too scary to 
encourage widespread adoption. Allowing developers to supply their own 
warning would help. For example, if the warning said "This Revlet wants 
permission to write a preference file to your hard drive" I wouldn't 
have many qualms.

On the other hand, if RR gives control over the prompt to the developer, 
there's no way to police it. The prompt could ask for permission to 
write a text file and instead proceed to wipe the drive. I'm not sure 
what the right approach is.

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