Steve,

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Steve Pinkham <steve.pink...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/27/2011 03:49 AM, Taras wrote:
> <---snip--->
>> cons
>> 1. svn up from trunk is not always good idea because it can make problems 
>> for user (trunk usually is for development)
>
> This is also my main concern with the feature. The 3 main failure modes
> I've seen in the past with my own w3af updates are:
>
> 1) just plain broken SVN version

    That shouldn't happen. We're working hard on setting up a Mr.
Hudson [0] to have nightly builds that will let us know if we commited
something that broke the trunk somehow.

[0] http://hudson-ci.org/

> 2) new library dependencies

    For now, the auto-update feature simply denies to update if a new
library/dependency is added.

> 3) removed or renamed plugins breaks users configs

    That, we never thought about. Created a ticket to review during
our next sprints.
    https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/ticket/161342

Regards,

> When auto-update is bullet-proof, that will be great!
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