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[Udo Schweigert]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 18:14:12 +0300, Sergei Kolobov wrote:
> On 2003-12-04 at 17:41 +0300, Sergey A. Osokin wrote:
>> Now we have two nessus ports (stable and devel) and both 2.0.9?
>> Something wrong?
> 
> It seemed strange to me, too... :-/
> For what it worth, both nessus* and nessus*-devel were at 2.0.8a before
> my commits.
> 
> Let's ask the maintainer - Udo Schweigert (copied).
> I am sure he has certain reasons for this.
> If not, we can remove the devel ports.

Yes, there are reasons. The nessus team has just started a new development
branch, but not yet releases a version out of that.

Here's the developer's announcement:

> Nessus 2.1.x developement has started !
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I am also pleased to announce that the developement of Nessus 2.1.x has
> started, and will eventually result in the release of Nessus 2.2.0 when
> it is ready. Most of the work in Nessus 2.1.x will be (again) devoted
> to improving the performances, reducing the overhead on the tested networks,
> and improve the reporting.

As soon as the first release of the 2.1.x branch is released, both ports will
become different. I maintained both ports so people tracking the -devel ports
always had a working port, instead of being forced to switch to non-devel
during a "non-developing" period.
 

Best regards

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