[flac-dev] Meet the new maintainer

[Raymond Edwards]

Malware doesn't just magically appear on your Windows machine when you connect to the internet, especially if you stay up to date.  Sounds like paranoia. 

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Raymond Edwards
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On Wednesday, 25 April, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Josh Coalson wrote:

> I'll throw this thought out here so it doesn't get lost: when it came time for me to build a Windows release, I always used a quarantined Windows box that had the minimum stuff installed and had never been on a network, to avoid malware getting into the binaries.
> 
> The last thing I ever wanted to hear was some Windows user blaming FLAC because a bad build infected him.  It was bad enough when some AV software was misidentifying a release as infected; it took months after the virus defs were updated for that stink to wear off.
> 
> > From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la at mega-nerd.com (mailto:mle+la at mega-nerd.com)>
> > To: flac-dev at xiph.org (mailto:flac-dev at xiph.org) 
> > Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2012 9:16 PM
> > Subject: Re: [flac-dev] Meet the new maintainer
> > 
> > Ralph Giles wrote:
> > 
> > > On 4 February 2012 14:30, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la at mega-nerd.com (mailto:la at mega-nerd.com)> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Is there any way to add say a windows machines with MSVC to that? :-)
> > > 
> > > There is. It's slightly complicated because (a) I don't have a windows
> > > machine with a public IP jenkins can ssh to, and (b) the jenkins box
> > > itself doesn't have a public IP the java blob jenkins provides can
> > > phone home to.
> > > 
> > > I need to set up appropriate tunnels or packet forwarding.
> > 
> > Would be very cool if you could set that up. Having Jenkins test 
> > on the platform that I do all of my hacking on is not all that
> > useful. Having Jenkins test on Windows and OS X would be *really*
> > useful.
> > 
> > Erik
> > -- 
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> > Erik de Castro Lopo
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