Originally Posted by Voorije
^^^ That would a) sacrifice a level of security. b) cause some places (for instance CF/WA) to probably look away from minion as they cannot protect their policies from being circumvented, and thus would lower minion adoption.
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In which case, they shouldn't be releasing their addons to sites that encourage the same thing as what Minion appears to be doing: the super-easy publication and distribution of game addons. And if their policy actually says "You must not use anything other than 'unzipping the archive' to install our addon", how is it your fault that a rogue user wrote a plugin? Its their policy, not yours.
Also, what security would be lost by letting a million people look at and scour the code to find any flaws? Are you implying that 'open source' means 'anyone can make changes to the code that gets released'? Thats why we have things like 'developer access' where only certain people can directly commit changes to the source code, and all other patches and changes have to be reviewed.
I honestly really would like to help out with Minion, since it seems like it'd be a crazy awesome tool to have. Just like how apple claims the App Store on their iPhone 'revolutionized' the way people distribute and purchase software.