john-users - Re: Re: existing collaboration tools suitable for MJohn

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Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 19:54:40 +0400
From: Aleksey Cherepanov <aleksey.4erepanov@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: existing collaboration tools suitable for MJohn

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:40:45PM +0200, Simon Marechal wrote:
> On 05/23/2012 09:10 PM, Aleksey Cherepanov wrote:
> > To the of that mail I convinced myself that request-tracker is a good
> > choice but I am still have a feeling that I should at least look on
> > one other solution before any further actions in this direction.
> 
> Last time I looked at it I thought that this was proven software, but
> that it needed a lot of customisation before being usable. And I
> intended to use it as a request tracker ;)

I think attack is some kind of request. Maybe it is too far similarity.

> I did not look at the source code, but it is old perl, so it might be
> even worse than a rails application. Did you try reading the source ? It
> is highly likely that you will have to alter it if you go that way, so
> having a quick look might give you a good idea of how hard it is going
> to be.

I do not think that it was frozen since its creation. I guess they
updated it to newer versions.

I just picked random perl file
(request-tracker4/etc/upgrade/shrink_transactions_table.pl) from
request-tracker and read it. At the beginning it contains:

use 5.8.3;
use strict;
use warnings;

It is promising. Thought Perl 5.8 was released in 2002 but 'grep -r
"use 5"' says that only two files have such line. In general other
contents of that file does not seem strange for me. So I think this is
not too old perl. Do not I miss something?

Regards,
Aleksey Cherepanov