Re: [Secureideas-base-devel] BASE and Debian
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From: Axton <axt...@gm...> - 2006-12-13 13:52:11
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kevin Johnson <kjo...@se...> Date: Dec 12, 2006 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [Secureideas-base-devel] BASE and Debian To: Axton <axt...@gm...> On Dec 12, 2006, at 10:20 PM, Axton wrote: Architecturally, what are our options? What are the limitations on dependencies we want to introduce? I think the options are wide open... We can do what ever we are willing to support. And since in 2.x we are splitting the UI from the data access, we don't have to fixate on one choice. Native to php: - gd. It's not nearly as robust as some other alternatives, but it's free. It may be unwieldly to use directly though. For the js route: CanvasGraph is BSD licensed: http://www.liquidx.net/canvasgraphjs/ Looks like a derivative or something (BSD/Apache): http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/ Caveats for the above two: - stated to not work on IE - dependencies: MochiKit (MIT License) I will look into these.... Not seeing many other good options in this arena. Thats the biggest problem.... I like Dan's notion of a plugin architecture for the graphing capabilities (though I am in the same boat, in the sense I am not a strong php programmer). Users could have the option of which graphing library they want to use; free, not so free, or none at all. Not sure how hard it would be to write an abstration layer between the BASE and the various graphing libs such that it would be flexible enough to accomodate several alternatives. I think the abstraction layer is the best idea. Lets work toward this.... Axton Grams By the way, I didn't want to reply to the list since you took this off list, but if you wouldn't mind, please add it back on any responses so that others can contribute... Your ideas are excellent but if only I ever see them....<grin> Thanks Kevin Kevin Johnson GCIA, GCIH, CISSP, CEH Principal Consultant Secure Ideas http://www.secureideas.net |