From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25871 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Lindsay Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: write18 Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:05:43 +0000 Message-ID: <43E63E77.6080901@comp.lancs.ac.uk> References: <70F072A0-3198-40E1-AD6F-F4DD618D7BC8@cox.net> <27E9A9C5-A196-4C7C-BC0C-03999CC7A133@rna.nl> <79BB9FD4-5A5D-4FFD-B2DC-9B55C99187DE@rna.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139162754 22037 80.91.229.2 (5 Feb 2006 18:05:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 18:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Feb 05 19:05:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5oGl-0006bg-5A for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:05:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839CB127CF; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 19:05:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14950-05; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 19:05:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1263127A1; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 19:05:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605ED127A1 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 19:05:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15036-02 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 19:05:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FCBB1277B for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 19:05:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [192.168.31.101] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k15I5hpG028933 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 18:05:43 GMT User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <79BB9FD4-5A5D-4FFD-B2DC-9B55C99187DE@rna.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:25871 Archived-At: Gerben Wierda wrote: >> On 5 Feb 2006, at 05:10, David Arnold wrote: >> >>> Gerben, >>> >>> With a default install of Context, I don't believe write18 is >>> enabled nor run time development of Metapost graphics. Do you do >>> any of that? > > If a change would require a non-secure standard config, I will not do > it. Nor will I if there is a reasonable run-time (not configure time) > workaround (e.g. adding -shell-escape to tex can be done runtime and > is thus a better security strategy than turning it on by default). If > it is possible to offer some configuration options to the user, I > will investigate. Gerben, David, I think the technique I documented here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Texmf.cnf ...is probably a good compromise for one or the other of you. It doesn't compromise the system as a whole, but it does compromise/add-feature for ConTeXt. adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-