Re: Strawberry Perl MSI installer

On 15.5.2014 20:27, Jan Dubois wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Chris Marshall<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Not familiar with MSI details but I hope any changes
>> won't be a problem for SPP which is useful because
>> it *doesn't* require special permissions---just enough
>> to create the folder...
> This has nothing to do with MSI, but with putting a directory on the
> PATH to which the user has write access.  Essentially all scripting
> languages do this to allow the user to install additional modules
> easily, but security companies like to put out alerts about this...

With ZIP and Portable it completely in user's hand how he|she created 
destination directory and with what filesystem permissions. This will not 
change.

> It is not a new issue; here is the ActiveState position about the same
> issue with ActivePerl:
>
> https://community.activestate.com/node/9199
>
> TL;DR: The default is more convenient for most users; it is trivial
> for users to apply more restrictive ACLs if they are bothered about
> it.

Yes, exactly the same issue and I guess also the solution will be the same :)

Thanks.

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kmx