Andres,
>> Especially those dependencies which >> can't be installed on distro native way (apt/yum/...). > > Maybe the solution is to invest in creating an deb package for the > missing dependencies? Yes, it is one way and it can be right. >> Yes, I know that there are a lot of really useful Python 3rd party modules >> but >> I have a lot of life examples when people said "Hmm, I don't want to >> install such big number dependencies and especially not from official >> repository to run this scanner". >> >> What do you think about it? > > We're always going to have people that think that *something* is > wrong, sadly, that group is much bigger than the group that sees and > issue and tries to fix it. Ok, I understand... ... > Some bad things I see in our installation process is that our code > is focused on guiding the users of Debian based distributions; which I > see as incomplete and useless for people running the installation in > RedHat/Fedora based distributions. Maybe there is an effort to be made > there? (detect distribution and show dependencies and commands > accordingly) Imho, it will be better to show only absent Python module names and recommends to read install.txt where we will write instructions for popular systems and distros. > In the future I see the amount of dependencies slowly growing once > again, for example, we'll need *some library* to support javascript > web applications, and that library will have other dependencies too. Dependencies which have dependencies...recursion sounds like recursion! :) > Also, one question, what do you mean by "hard dependencies" ? Do > you want to move some to "optional" ? If number of dependencies will grown we will need to separate them to e.g. core, plugins and optional * core dependencies are required * plugin dependencies are required only if those plugins are enabled * optional are optional :) -- Taras http://oxdef.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ W3af-develop mailing list W3af-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/w3af-develop
