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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 13:22:48 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Jason Smith (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-1867) Plugins
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Jason Smith commented on COUCHDB-1867:
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The blacklist exists so you can specify which plugins to load at run time rather than at build time.

In other words, simply placing a plugin in that directory activates the plugin; but what if you want to disable the plugin? Worse, what if you run multiple instances of CouchDB on the same machine, from the same installation?

Iris Couch has a plugin, cgi_couchdb, where you can put CGI scripts in your design document, and run arbitrary CGI applications in CouchDB. Obviously that is only enabled for trusted users.

If there was a way to activate/deactivate plugins from the config, I would be happy to see the blacklist go. Mostly I implemented it this way because my Bash-fu was stronger than my Erlang-fu at the time.
                
> Plugins
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>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1867
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1867
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Jan Lehnardt
>            Assignee: Jan Lehnardt
>            Priority: Minor
>
> It should be easy to install CouchDB plugins.

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