* Jim Preston wrote: > Just my 2 cents but .... since this is Open Source software, what you did > is the correct thing. You wanted a feature added, the ability to have > commandline arguments on virusaction script.
Actually aCaB adjusted my opinion on that. I came around to seeing it his way, but still wanted more than he gave me. > Since this is a feature request, it almost always gets low priority if it > gets scheduled for > implementation at all. You aren't kidding there. This whole thing started as bug 1754, although I will admit at the time exactly what I wanted wasn't very clear. > As a feature request you have basically three options: > > 1. Wait for the development team to implement the feature request with the > understanding it may be way off in the future. In my case never, see bug 1754. My intent was to let those smarter than me figure out the best way, but what I got was wontfix. Which I thought meant "user wants us to move the world with a toothpick, no way!" > 2. Implement the feature request yourself, which you have done. It was fairly easy, and I don't understand half of what I did. I'm sure someone who knew what they were doing could do a better job in a quarter of the time. So wontfix now means "cant be bothered, screw off!" > 3. Have some third party implement the feature for you. This is still an > option. Precisely why I'm pitching a fit here. :-) I don't want to do this, but I'll do it if it gets me the features that I need. I have tried hinting, asking, explaining, all of which got me nothing. Now I'm butchering the code with a chainsaw. > Saying that you are 'disgusted' with the development team because they do > not see this feature request as a make/break scenario for the project is in > MY opinion not an acceptable option. > Your right. I'm not disgusted with aCaB at all, he tries. This isn't about make or break. ClamAV is an awesome Anti virus toolkit. Its about how this awesome toolkit calls outside programs. Its something that, if the effort were put into it, the payoff would be great. The required effort didn't turn out to be all that much either. I waited 6 months for one of them to do it, then took half a day to bang it out myself, and it doesn't completely work. One of them could have done it in a couple of hours and it would have worked. Why should I not be disgusted? :-) -- Sincerely, Nathan Gibbs Systems Administrator Christ Media http://www.cmpublishers.com
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