Re: [Rails-devel] Save-file compatibility issues

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

Could you explicate the security issues?  We are currently doing exactly
this, and it works just fine.  It is also convenient for multiplatform - all
I need is access to Dropbox, and it doesn't matter if I'm on my home Ubuntu,
my work Mac, etc...

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Chris

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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Aliza Panitz <ali...@gm...>wrote:

> For those who use Dropbox or other file-sharing tools, perhaps put a
> copy of the correct version of Rails in the same directory as the
> savefiles?  It's not that big... though the security issues in
> executing code from the network are a possible stopper.
>
>  - Aliza
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Jim Black <jim...@ya...>
> wrote:
> > I do switch versions w/ different games, but it's quite awkward, and
> error
> > prone.  More problematic, it causes cascading interdependencies across
> > players- where everyone has to upgrade in step, and run multiple
> different
> > versions across their different games, etc.
> > Surprisingly, in practice the combinatorials get out of hand really
> quickly-
> > it seems to be causing a lot of problems across players and games, at
> > present.
> >
> >
>
>
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