Re: [Bro-Dev] Package manager meta data

2016-10-29 Thread Robin Sommer
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 11:28 -0700, I wrote: > (if a source operator can do hooks that will avoid any delays at all). Ah, that's not true of course, it only applies to initial setup of a package. Robin -- Robin Sommer * ICSI/LBNL * ro...@icir.org * www.icir.org/robin ___

Re: [Bro-Dev] Package manager meta data

2016-10-29 Thread Robin Sommer
I'll just jump in at the end of the thread: Switching to fully self-describing packages sounds great to me, that should solve all the issues I noticed. I also don't quite recall the reasoning for arriving at the current scheme, but it was probably a combination of iterating over the design a few ti

Re: [Bro-Dev] Package manager meta data

2016-10-29 Thread Siwek, Jon
> On Oct 28, 2016, at 5:52 PM, Jan Grashöfer wrote: > > Correct me if I am wrong > but bro-pkg.meta contains stuff like script_dir and dependencies (so > rather technically), whereas bro-pkg.index contains the descriptive > information like info text and tags (which is metadata, too, one could >