ping :) 10.02.2012 18:06, Taras пишет: > 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 :) > > >
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