Re: Thoughts on script documentation

[Rob Nicholls <robert () robnicholls co uk>]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:48:10 -0600, Ron <ron () skullsecurity net> wrote:
> Telling people to "download the svn" to get the newest scripts isn't
> always realistic, especially with Windows users, and stable builds 
> can
> be months apart.

It's been almost a year since the last stable release (5.21 was 
released in January 2010) and it's been almost half a year since the 
last (5.35DC1) development release. Months apart is quite generous. 
Since Nmap introduced NSE there seems to be a far greater need/desire 
for new releases.

Would it be worth considering a more regular and frequent build cycle? 
Perhaps a stable release every 6 months (with development releases as 
appropriate)?

I'd prefer to encourage users to upgrade all of Nmap and gain access to 
all of the latest scripts than offer them a potentially small subset of 
new scripts that will still work on their legacy versions (and the 
potentially large overhead for us to maintain an update system - if we 
make changes to the latest versions, will the changes be backported to 
older versions of scripts?). But that's just my opinion :)

Rob

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