Steve,
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Steve Pinkham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/13/2011 09:24 AM, Andres Riancho wrote:
>> R0me0,
>>
> <--snip-->
>>
>> I think this is because you're using Python2.6, w3af (for now)
>> only supports Python2.5
>>
>
> No modern Linux ships with 2.5. At least Samurai WTF and Web Security
> Dojo run w3af under 2.6. No Ubuntu since 9.10 (that's the October 2009
> release for those who may not speak Ubuntu release versions ;-)
> supports 2.5. The choices are now 2.6, 2.7, or 3.1. Debian unstable and
> testing have also dropped 2.5.
Yep, we're aware of that and we already have a ticket to fix this
in the next sprint(s).
> (strangely enough, Samurai is still based on 9.04, has python2.5
> installed, but still runs w3af as python2.6.)
>
> I appreciate the desire to not make the jump at the moment, but a large
> number of people are running under 2.6 whether it's supported or not.
>
> I think I've been making this argument for a year at least, including
> offers to be the official 2.6 tester if desired(my python is rubbish,
> but my skill at breaking things is quite good ;-).. How long until 2.6
> is supported?
The idea is to migrate directly to 2.7 , as specified here [0].
Due to popular request, I moved [0] to the next sprint, which starts
next week. If everything goes as planned, we should have a working [1]
version of w3af with python 2.7 by the end of the sprint (2 weeks
after monday).
[0] https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/ticket/160050
[1] https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/milestone/owls-sprint-7
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>
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Andrés Riancho
Director of Web Security at Rapid7 LLC
Founder at Bonsai Information Security
Project Leader at w3af
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