Re: error semantics of faulty dependencies

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 04:38:54PM +0200, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> We just had a case on nmap-dev where a programmer accidentally stated
> dependencies = {"script-name.nse"}
> which is wrong. The correct way is to leave out the file extension. So
> dependencies = {"script-name"}
> would have been correct.
>
> I have done the same error myself, and I can tell you it is really
> hard to debug. Could nmap be modified to include some sort of check
> that would catch these errors and give a clear error message when run
> with debugging flags?

I think we could either 1) show a warning when a dependency ends in
".nse", or 2) allow dependencies to end in ".nse". If someone has a
patch for either one I'll apply it.

David Fifield
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