Re: NessusClient 1.0.0.RC1

On Oct 24, 2005, at 8:00, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote:

Quick replies (I'll reply in more details later) :


> 7.- Would it be possible to have a separate GTK+ and CLI binary?  
> This has been requested by some people (see http://bugs.debian.org/ 
> cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265046) which would like to install the  
> client in a server (to program cron tasks to run scans, for  
> example) but not pull in all the X/GTK+ dependencies required by it.

The CLI binary comes with nessus-core (it's called 'nessus'). As I  
said, the plan is to remove all X11 dependencie from nessus-core/ in  
Nessus 2.4.x and newer, and instead move all the GUI work to  
NessusClient. This also makes things a bit more simple packaging-wise.

> I'm surprised to see that it does not compile against the nessus- 
> libraries (like the previous GUI did) but provides a libnessus/  
> directory of its own which contains different headers than those  
> provided by nessus-libraries. Naming it 'libnessus' (instead of,  
> maybe, 'libnessus-client') is somewhat confusing.

This actually is not a real library -- libnessus/ as provided by  
NessusClient only contains a restricted subset of functions that are  
provided by nessus-libraries/, and is compiled as a static library.

This also simplifies packaging, as NessusClient does not require any  
Nessus-related component.



                                    -- Renaud
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