Hi,

Em S?, 2003-08-02 ās 16:49, Florin Andrei escreveu:

> How about separating the rules from the SpamAssassin distribution
> itself, and offer them as a separate package? This would be similar to
> the way intrusion detection systems (Snort, etc.) and antivirus
> applications work.

I think this is a great idea.
I thought about this some time ago, and wonder about some gotchas in
doing this:
1 - Lots of rules depends on the sa "engine" being used to work, like
    eval tests.
2 - Depending on the type of rules it would have to check the sa
    "engine"  version at run time to be sure it can be used.
3 - Some tests if not preperly written or used with a "buggy" version of
    sa "engine", could bring sa down.
4 - For this to work out, an extra amount of qa tests would be necessary
    to make sure nothing would break during rule package releases.
5 - I am not sure the authors of sa (and volunteers) have enough time
    for doing this.  This process could slow sa development.  
    AFAI Imagine, anti-virus software companies have different teams to
    deal with this issues.

OTOH, if all this factors doesn't really matter, I would love to start
using rules from sa 2.60 in 2.55 while 2.60 still beta.

[]'s
Raul Dias



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