[Discussion] Plug-Ins

[Martin Fong]

Victor,

 >>  I'd like to a have a plug-in architecture that simply/only uses
 >>  dynamic libraries and configuration files (-- I've _never_ been
 >>  happy with the compile-it-into-the-code-base model).
 >
 >  Yeah, this is something I want as well. I wonder how far we should
 >  take this though: detection modules only, or also output, decoding,
 >  pattern matcher, packet sources (libpcap, ip_queue, etc), etc?

I vote for all of them.  This would eliminate the fragility associated
with patching configure[,.in] and Makefile[.ac,.in] scripts (which are
highly subject to the versions of autoconf and automake), and it's
inexpensive, because address reconciliation is only done once.

      Cheers!

      ...Martin
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