On Aug 10, 2010, at 11:14 AM, wi...@sh... wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to solicite assistance and advice from the BASE community
> with regards for setting requirements for the BASE 2.0 release. Since
> taking over the project from Kevin I have been reviewing the code and have
> found that moving forward, it will probably be best for us to rewrite the
> engine from scratch. While this may be a large project in the short term
> in the long term I feel the current code is
> unmaintainable and a new codebase will allow us to easily integrate new
> features (like IPv6 support) when the time comes.
>
> The last release in the 1.5.X release chain will be 1.5.5, which will
> contain the patches for BASE to run under PHP 5.3. The 1.5.5 release will
> still include the Pear::Image and Pear::Graph functionality that is broken
> under PHP5.3. If someone wants to develop a work around or patch for this
> then I welcome your efforts, but I will be focusing on the 2.0 release.
>
> I would like to solicit assistance from developers who would like to help
> with BASE 2.0. In the coming days I will be sending more emails to the
> secureideas-base-devel mailing list. If you are interested please contact
> me for more details. I hope that BASE can continue to be a flexible
> enterprise snort analysis console.
I hope that it goes without saying, but of course I am saying it, I am available to help with this.
I look forward to seeing where BASE ends up.
Kevin
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