On Thu Aug 12 2004 at 18:29, Thomas Reinke wrote:

> It would be really nice, given that we know that we are duplicating
> functionality, and duplicating operations that take a LONG time to run,
> if there was some automatic way making the transition to the NASL based
> equivalents of .NES scripts a seamless one.

This has been fixed. Violently :)
The NES plugins refused to run if NASL_LEVEL is high enough

> to the daemon.  The problem is that these preference descriptions are
> subject to change (and have changed).  Which forces every client
> that preconfigures preferences to change everytime a preference string
> is changed.

This does not happen often. We try to keep the number of preferences
low.

> Another problem is anyone trying to build a client that operates
> in a different language.  In that case, the preference descriptions
> cannot be displayed to a user directly, and must be mapped to
> the corresponding foreign language counterpart.  But this mapping
> will not be reliable if the basis for a mapping is a descriptive
> text string that keeps changing.

If the string is new, display it in English. I see no other way.

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