Everyone has a voice, you just need to keep it civilised.
+1
and +1 patricia, ideas turn to changes and progress, complaints just turn to drama.
ken i have no problem with your voice or your opinion, but keep it civil, no name calling and no aggessiveness towards anyone. That is all we ask.
Artmedia, i did answer your questions serveral times..
1. the callback needs to be in the install file for the following reasons.
a. the callback is designed to work during install to give feedback during install so
that you know who installs your plugins.
b. regardless of where you put the code they can remove your security so in that regard there is no difference because its all open source.
c. since the callback is designed to get install information, we dont want any other part of the script involved because it can be exploited simply for the fact that placing it in the service file allows greater access environment than the callback should have.
d. We found abuse of the callback information in numerous prlugins so we have to provide policy now.
e. its the policy now (most important reason of all)
Regarding the protection issue: Oxwall and its terms has never provided protection (code) functions inside of third party plugins. Oxwall does not provide support for 3rd party plugins and most likely wont ever because this is up to you. However, Oxwall does have provisions in place such as the license process in the store to assist you. Oxwall also has to consider the legal and ethical side to callbacks and what they send and when. It could look very bad if callbacks were not regulated and developers could just get any information they wanted (which is pretty much what has been happening). So we decided to crack down and put in place the policy to protect our users, your customers, and everyones reputation.
Finally, pirating and hacking has been around since the very first computers, its not something that is going away any time soon. So if you want to develope something new that you can add to your install file, then let us know and we will consider it. But oxwall is not responsible for your products, we just provide the environment they live in, and that environment has rules.