[Bf-committers] Please turn off Auto Run Python Scripts by default

[Campbell Barton]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As a normal hobby users, the biggest risk that I see is downloading a
>> blend from the net and opening it. This is not something we are likely
>> to give up. So, warning or not, what good is it? I need some way to
>> know if the file is good or bad. I don't see an answer. I would say a
>> good third of the users or more download blends for learning at least
>> and often for producing their own stuff.
>
> What might be much more useful is a program that load a blend and tell
> me what it might do. For example, does it run scripts, does it have
> crazy large data sets? If it runs scripts then it should be able to
> show me them. It should look at the data sizes that the blend will use
> and make guesses if it is too large. Naturally it should only open the
> blend as data and not as blender would.
> --
> Douglas E Knapp

Such a tool isn't so hard to write, see this python module which loads
up blend files without using blender.
http://blender-aid.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/blendfile.py