On 9/8/12 10:42 AM, Tim Foster wrote:
On 09/ 8/12 12:50 PM, Shawn Walker wrote:
On 09/07/12 17:04, Philip Brown wrote:
So far, I get the impression that all IPS related stuff is in python.
but I guess I should ask, before getting TOO deep in code... are there
any non-python (Ideally, simple C) libraries, for doing things like
parsing repo catalog files and other repo-ness ?
Not at this time.
Why do you want this?
The proposal sent to this list a few weeks back allows the IPS content
to be served by Apache directly, with no Python involved on the
server-side
And this is a very good thing.
Given that it already supports file:/// urls, I cant see any reason why
it wouldnt support it *right now*, to be honest.
But that's not really related to my question.
There are multiple reasons why I am interested in this, some of which are:
1. as mentioned by others, the python stuff is bloated and sloooooow
2. it would be useful to query/download this stuff on other operating
systems. Not to mention Solaris 10, which I gather will never happen ,
because it requires a newer python+something+somethingelse+.....
After poking at this stuff a bit in black-box analysis mode, it doesnt
seem that hard to get basic functionality going. The most annoying and
slow part is the catalog parsing. For which I seem to be close to having
a stripped down extractor prog in C now. But it would have been nice if
the work was already done.
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