Re: [prelude-user] [RFC]: Switching Prelude-Correlator rules to Python

Alvaro Luis Quispe R. <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:38:36 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids.prelude.devel,gmane.comp.security.ids.prelude.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>

 hi friends,

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 I'd welcome a switch to Python.

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Best Regards,

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=C0lvaro Quispe

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> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:54:36 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]; prelude-devel@=
prelude-ids.org
> Subject: Re: [prelude-devel] [prelude-user] [RFC]: Switching Prelude-Corr=
elator rules to Python
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> --On April 14, 2009 9:41:02 AM +0200 Yoann Vandoorselaere =

> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Hi folks,
> >
> > We are currently evaluating the move of Prelude-Correlator ruleset
> > language away from Lua to Python, and would like to get your feedback.
> >
> > Lua is a very good language which is suited for specific needs. Some of
> > it's advantage come from its speed (more than twice as fast as Python),
> > and its size.
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> Python may be bigger, but part of that is what makes working with python =
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> useful. I don't need to download a 100's libraries and modules to do the =

> basic tasks. It comes with a lot of horsepower built in. (Why Lua needs a =

> module for sockets completely lost me).
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> > [..SNIP..]
> > We would be very interested in hearing what you think about this
> > potential move.
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> I would very much like to see this as it would put a quick end to my pure =

> python correlator never finished. Also I think this move would allow for =

> quicker and more interesting rules from the community at large.
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> -Jeremy Rossi
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