I agree with the approach - it is time to break from the old baggage for the sake of the proposed simplification and improvements of the scanner.
AR On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Jan-Oliver Wagner < jan-oliver.wag...@greenbone.net> wrote: > Hello Developers, > > for many month (actually years) I am unhappy with several of the old > broken-by-design elements that we inherited from Nessus. > > We kept things compatible at high costs over long time (especially OTP, > some related formats and data structures), also to have Scanner-only > users and Old-OpenVAS-Client users happy. > > A parallel "next generation" is IMHO too costly, we simply can not afford > it. > > > My strong preference therefore is that we have OpenVAS-6 scanner the last > release that will be backward compatible and break things up for OpenVAS-7. > OpenVAS-6 will be supported as long as there are users needing the old > style or as long until we have a adequate equivalent with the new style - > which may well take until OpenVAS-8. > > Some of the changes I would like to establish quickly after OpenVAS-6 > is released would be: > > * no "services" in scanner results: this is not task of the scanner to > know or > guess about > * no "default" for ports. It is part of the target definition and it is the > clients task. Silently using some unknown list is not correct IMHO. > * reduced OTP. Also some commands to change like > having some XML objects returned, e.g. for NVT details. > This would only be a first step towards desired OSP. > * break code-wise with openvas-client (include paths for example, but > also remove code from libraries that is used by client only) > > This already would allow to get rid of loads of uneccessary code in order > minimalize the Scanner to scanning (and thus lower the costs for > maintenance > and improvements of the actual job). Also we would gain some improved user > transparency like for the services. > > I guess several more simplification and improvements will occur do us ... > and > could implemented right away in a clean way. > > How are the moods about this "evolution jump" ? > > Best > > Jan > > -- > Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner | ++49-541-335084-0 | http://www.greenbone.net/ > Greenbone Networks GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, > HR B > 202460 > Geschäftsführer: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-devel mailing list > Openvas-devel@wald.intevation.org > https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-devel >
_______________________________________________ Openvas-devel mailing list Openvas-devel@wald.intevation.org https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-devel
