Re: [Development] Controlling QML Imports

2012-12-12 Thread Alan Alpert
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Alan Alpert <4163654...@gmail.com> wrote: > For finer-grained control over QML it would make sense to have an API > allowing import restrictions. Two usecases come to mind, platform > security contexts and scriptable applications. Platform security > contexts is abo

Re: [Development] Controlling QML Imports

2012-12-12 Thread Alan Alpert
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Jan Kundrát wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 December 2012 04:23:51 CEST, Alan Alpert wrote: >> For finer-grained control over QML it would make sense to have an API >> allowing import restrictions. Two usecases come to mind, platform >> security contexts and scriptable app

Re: [Development] Controlling QML Imports

2012-12-11 Thread BRM
> From: Alan Alpert <4163654...@gmail.com> >Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 2:46 PM >Subject: Re: [Development] Controlling QML Imports > >On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: >> On terça-feira, 11 de dezembro de 2012 15.44.37, Aaron J. Seigo

Re: [Development] Controlling QML Imports

2012-12-11 Thread Alan Alpert
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On terça-feira, 11 de dezembro de 2012 15.44.37, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> > > > loading of native plugins from the application? >> >> Yes, but not native plugins installed by the QML applications. In such a >> situation we need to be able t

Re: [Development] Controlling QML Imports

2012-12-11 Thread Thiago Macieira
On terça-feira, 11 de dezembro de 2012 15.44.37, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > > loading of native plugins from the application? > > Yes, but not native plugins installed by the QML applications. In such a > situation we need to be able to ensure that applications which say "I will > access this list

Re: [Development] Controlling QML Imports

2012-12-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
(sorry for interjecting a reply to multiple emails here, but i just got back on this list specifically to discuss QML matters.) On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 14:21:28 Laszlo Papp wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Knoll Lars wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Thiago Macieira > > > c

Re: [Development] Controlling QML Imports

2012-12-11 Thread Laszlo Papp
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Knoll Lars wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Thiago Macieira > wrote: > > > On terça-feira, 11 de dezembro de 2012 13.43.08, Lincoln Ramsay wrote: > >> On 11/12/12 13:23, Alan Alpert wrote: > >>> Any comments on adding an API like this? > >>> > >>> Are ther

Re: [Development] Controlling QML Imports

2012-12-11 Thread Knoll Lars
On Dec 11, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On terça-feira, 11 de dezembro de 2012 13.43.08, Lincoln Ramsay wrote: >> On 11/12/12 13:23, Alan Alpert wrote: >>> Any comments on adding an API like this? >>> >>> Are there any other usecases which this might need to support? >> >> If we'

Re: [Development] Controlling QML Imports

2012-12-10 Thread Thiago Macieira
On terça-feira, 11 de dezembro de 2012 13.43.08, Lincoln Ramsay wrote: > On 11/12/12 13:23, Alan Alpert wrote: > > Any comments on adding an API like this? > > > > Are there any other usecases which this might need to support? > > If we're talking device security and restrictions policy... then ple

Re: [Development] Controlling QML Imports

2012-12-10 Thread Alan Alpert
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Lincoln Ramsay wrote: > On 11/12/12 13:23, Alan Alpert wrote: >> Any comments on adding an API like this? >> >> Are there any other usecases which this might need to support? > > If we're talking device security and restrictions policy... then please > make this so

Re: [Development] Controlling QML Imports

2012-12-10 Thread Lincoln Ramsay
On 11/12/12 13:23, Alan Alpert wrote: > Any comments on adding an API like this? > > Are there any other usecases which this might need to support? If we're talking device security and restrictions policy... then please make this something that can fail "softly" at runtime. I know most mobile pl

[Development] Controlling QML Imports

2012-12-10 Thread Alan Alpert
For finer-grained control over QML it would make sense to have an API allowing import restrictions. Two usecases come to mind, platform security contexts and scriptable applications. Platform security contexts is about when a platform using QML for the applications wants to have restricted capabili