[Bro-Dev] New script organization

Seth Hall seth at icir.org
Mon Aug 8 07:52:12 PDT 2011


On Aug 8, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Jonathan Siwek wrote:

> I don't like the use of ".init" for anything.  To me, that's implying it might not be the same language as the other scripts.  Is there an advantage of using the exceptional extension?  Maybe it was originally meant to imply it's an internal script, but now anything in "base/" could almost be considered "internal".


That's actually a really good point.  I think I could go for that.  The first time I saw the bro.init script I was pretty confused since it's just a plain Bro script.

  .Seth

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