[Bro-Dev] package manager progress

Robin Sommer robin at icir.org
Wed Jul 27 10:57:10 PDT 2016


Make it four. :) I'm with Seth, too, better not to enforce any naming
scheme because the boundaries are unclear. Also, note that a single
binary Bro plugin can provide multiple quite different things (say, a
reader and an analyzer and a packet source all at the same time, if
one so desires :).

Also agree with Johanna: the username is part of the package name if I
follow correctly, so there's disambiguation there.

I have some more feeback on the package manager and Jon's questions
starting this thread, will send soon.

Robin

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 09:15 -0700, you wrote:

> And to add a me three to this - I am also with him on this one. On top 
> of things - I might misremember this, but didn't we plan package names 
> to include the github user name at one point of time? So a package name 
> would be user/redis, for example, and there also could be user2/redis?
> 
> Johanna
> 
> On 27 Jul 2016, at 9:05, Matthias Vallentin wrote:
> 
> >> I actually don't like this that much because some of these can cross
> >> boundaries and do all sorts of different things in a single plugin.
> >> It makes more sense to me to leave the naming open.
> >
> > I'm with Seth on this one. The reason why I think we should keep the
> > naming open is that it's the job of the meta data tags to take care of
> > the grouping. If someone writes a redis package, then they should 
> > apply
> > the redis package. Encoding this meta data into the package name is
> > quite limited, however.
> >
> >     Matthias
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