[Foundation-l] Strategy document?

[Nikola Smolenski]

On Friday 03 October 2008 18:56:17 Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > 2008/10/3 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> >> 2008/10/3 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
> >>> 2008/10/3 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.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.