Achim,
That came out a little bit rude... let me rephrase that :)
I believe that it would be an awesome feature, but really hard to
code, test and maintain. I'm personally not interested in it, so I
won't do it myself, but if someone else wants to, I'm totally on board
and will merge all the pull requests.
Let me explain why I believe it is difficult:
* Some python dependencies have C code. That would need to be
compiled for different platforms (x86, 64, arm?)
* Some python dependencies are wrappers around C libraries:
gtk for example. Those are difficult to bundle in a OS agnostic way,
and will also suffer from the issues from the previous point
* It is not common, but in some cases (like with Mac and OSX
[0]) there are different dependencies for specific systems
Not saying it is impossible... maybe things like Python wheel [1]
is what you're looking for?
Another, more radical option would be to release w3af also as a
docker [2] image. I've experimented with that, but it seems a little
bit too new for now, since most users don't have the latest kernel
(which is a requirement for docker).
[0] https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/issues/485
[1] http://pythonwheels.com/
[2] https://www.docker.io/
Regards,
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Andres Riancho
<andres.rian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That would be awesome. If you send me a pull request I'll hapily merge it.
>
> El 30/03/2014 12:44, "Achim Hoffmann" <webse...@sic-sec.org> escribió:
>
>> Andrés, Taras,
>>
>> it would be nice to get a w3af which runs on plain old unpatched systems
>> I.e. not everyone has, or can, or would like to install a bunch of python
>> gimmicks on her/his/ system to get one single tool running (potentially
>> breaking others).
>>
>> Is there any way that w3af contains anything it needs?
>> I can live with something simple like
>>
>> curl ...some.website.../w3af.tgz|tar xf -&&./w3af_gui
>>
>> KISS - keep it simple secure
>> Achim
>>
>> Am 30.03.2014 17:02, schrieb Taras:
>> > Andres,
>> >
>> > workaround with "--system-site-packages" has helped, thanks.
>> > P.S. I also had to delete some installed system packages like pdfminer
>> > because of version conflicts.
>>
>>
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