[Open-scap] help regarding implementation of OVAL probes in python

[Martin Preisler]

While I do agree that having the ability to write OVAL probes in Python
might be useful, we don't support it at the moment and I am not aware
of any plans to support it in the future.

I recommend to review how probes interact with openscap,
see openscap/src/OVAL/probes/probe, in particular the main.c file.

If the only goal is to make it easier to write probes, perhaps one
could create a pass-through C probe that would interact with the
Python code.

-- 
Martin Preisler

----- Original Message -----
> From: "david oliva" <david.oliva at verizon.net>
> To: slukasik at redhat.com, Open-scap-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2013 2:09:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Open-scap] help regarding implementation of OVAL probes	in	python
> 
> Jacob:
> Allow me to give my opinion as an independent individual.
> I think probes in python would be highly useful and marketable.
> David Oliva
> On 04/04/13, Simon Lukasik<slukasik at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/03/2013 06:53 PM, Jacob Varughese wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > My name is Jacob. I am working at Oracle and involved in supporting
> > openscap on Oracle Solaris.
> > I was wondering if there has been any request to have OVAL probes
> > written in python. Has this been discussed
> > before, if so would appreciate any information on the matter. We would
> > like to implement some OVAL probes
> > in python.
> > 
> 
> Hello Jacob,
> 
> I am not aware of any OVAL probe which is not implemented in OpenSCAP.
> Which OVAL probe do You miss?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Simon Lukasik
> Security Technologies
> 
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