From: Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.yu>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy document?
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 5:07 PM
On Friday 03 October 2008 18:56:17 Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2008/10/3 David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
>> 2008/10/3 geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>om>:
>>> 2008/10/3 Nikola Smolenski
<smolensk(a)eunet.yu>yu>:
>>>> Birgitte SB wrote:
>>>>> Ability to transcribe musical
scores in wikitext.
>>>>
>>>> Easily doable.
>>>
>>> Close. It's been done but with
security issues.
>>
>> o_0 Dare I ask?
>
> I wasn't aware that music could be used as a
dangerous weapon
> either... surely it's just putting lots
of
pictures together?
The problem is that the solution people have proposed,
LilyPond,
includes a scripting language. There's a
safe
mode to disable some of
the more unpleasant features, but apparently
that's not safe enough:
it can still easily be DoS'd by infinite
loops.
Info on LilyPond's
safe mode:
There is the other solution, ABC notation. To my knowledge,
it is fully
adequate for our needs, and there are no security problems.