[Vtigercrm-developers] Hosting vs extension-loader

[SIAM Translations]

It coming to what was said in the other post - release clean installation
without extension store and let it install for users who wish to have it.
Integrating both commercial and open source into one app is not in line
with open source ideology, as developers in fact have no access to whole
code.
Now we have situation where integration with app store slowing down
development of core system which suppose to be already released (in line
with declarations), causing confusions and sometimes anger :-)

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On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Pabiszczak, Błażej <b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl
> wrote:

> That's quite funny. I’m going to move away from the discussion for a bit
> because we received a question from a company that leases servers from one
> of the biggest hosting companies in Poland
>
>
>
> (hosting: *niebieski.net <http://niebieski.net/>*)
>
> One of our customers asked us to install this extension on our server:
>
> http://community.vtiger.com/help/vtigercrm/php/extension-loader.html#
>
>
>
> So we have a question about it. Have you ever come across this extension?
> If so, what is your opinion about it when considering both: server hosting
> company and user’s point of view.
>
> We have discussed it with our administration and we received a worrying
> reply. Do you happen to know any alternative extensions that have the same
> functions? Below I include information that we received from our
> administrators about this extension:
>
> (hosting: *kei.pl <http://kei.pl/>*)
>
> The structure analyses of this extension arouse a lot of concern about the
> security and the ways of updating the package. This software doesn’t
> support 5.5 php so it means that the developer stopped supporting the
> package for new versions of php and this may cause some update and
> compatibility issues with our technical solutions and security.
> Additionally, future updates of this software might be even more difficult
> because it is proprietary software (binary file) that is very difficult or
> even impossible to debug when there are problems with update. If we don’t
> have the possibility to get an insight into a package code, then it arouses
> even more controversy over its security and updates (no insight into a
> package code = no options to modify/adjust the code to our solutions). Even
> if the installation of a package would be successful, the closest update of
> security would probably (in 99%) disable the service of a module and it
> will be impossible to find the root of the problem because it is closed
> source software.
>
> Z poważaniem / Regards
> Błażej Pabiszczak
> M: +48.884999123
> E: b.pabiszczak at opensaas.pl
>
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