At 08:55 PM 12/3/2013 -0200, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:I'm referring to professionals who know full well what they are doing with their library systems, we don't need the security implications of any "preference" having external file editing capability. If amateurs need reminding, that's another question that should be available during installation, not afterwards.
My main concern is people having Koha instances that already reached EOL and/or are not supported anymore. How to do it is the topic in discussion. I like the idea of a button (maybe in the form of a tab in the about page ;-) and maybe with a disclamer notice and a confirmation button). Having a syspref defaulting to "disabled" could work if this is troublesome in several jurisdictions.
Look around the landscape: does perl, or apache, or mysql, or zebra, or etc, etc... do this?