On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Guilherme Polo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 ?
Yeap. I agree.
Sometimes I fly and I think that we can just make all the stuff.
We should concern in take care of what Umit have firstly before include new
features.
But what is your definition of what should be a plugin? And what shouldn't?
>
>
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > 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
>
--
Luís A. Bastião Silva
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