Stefan Behnel wrote:
Leonardo Santagada wrote:
The biggest problem I see is security, but if people are really interested in this we could at least try it no?
Security certainly is a major issue here. Anyone can upload packages to PyPI, so you can run arbitrary code on tons of machines, just by pushing some well-forged setup.py script there.
Since it would be inside a VM, the major risk would be running some kind of malicious server of some kind inside the setup script - but it should be relatively easy to make sure the vm prevents that from happening ? It is a major issue, but I would guess it has been solved by the build service system (which is really great BTW, I think it is a very significant advancement, under-rated project for open source software deployment). cheers, David