On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Luis A. Bastiao Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Guilherme Polo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Luis A. Bastiao Silva >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I'm making a effort to port NSE Facilitator to be a plugin. >> > Maxim Gavrilov doesn't maintain the branch anymore, so I was thinking >> > why >> > couldn't bring NSEFacilitator as plugin? Nobody made a plugin really >> > useful >> > (I'm excluding the Flow Analyser and GeoLocation/traceroute at >> > PacketManipulator, and others nice but don't really usefull in nmap >> > context). So NSEFacilitator will be, so we give the real value to Umit >> > Plugins. >> >> I would like to hear the reasons for transforming the NSE Facilitator >> into a plugin first. Does it make sense to make it a plugin ? > > Fair enough. > I'll show a perspective. But I want to clarify: This is just a hypothesis > :-) > > NSE brings to users the a powerful and *extensible* way to add new features > to search networks and make sophisticated detections. > > If it is extensible, current user couldn't need this. So why they needs NSE > Facilitator? >
Huh ? If it is so powerful and so extensible that is yet another point to not make it a plugin. If it is extensible as you say, then it already has plugins (its extensions). Which sounds like another point to not turn itself into a plugin. > > But I'm not sure about that.I'm aware if we integrate it to umit package we > could easily use the module if it necessary and maybe will be in right side. > Uhm ? > Plugin or not plugin sounds good to me know if NSEFacilitator is ready to be > on 1.0. > I'm not sure if it is good to add it to 1.0. There aren't many people (by many you can consider 2 or 3 people here) taking care of the "standard umit", so who would take care of NSE Faciliator ? > >> >> >> > >> > I was talking with Francesco and he said that isn't a problem Umit have >> > a >> > plugin enable by default and we can package it together. >> >> Well, this sounds a bit strange. If it is a plugin why does it come >> packaged together with umit and why does it also come enabled by >> default ? > > No. If you see Rhythmbox or emesene, they did the same. > -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Umit-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/umit-devel
