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Nmap Development: Re: Nmap-dev-only release: Nmap 3.10ALPHA1

Re: Nmap-dev-only release: Nmap 3.10ALPHA1

From: William McVey <wam_at_cisco.com>
Date: 28 Aug 2002 14:18:11 -0500

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 03:18, Fyodor wrote:
> o Major code restructing, which included conversion to C++ -- so
> you'll need g++ or another C++ compiler. I accidently let a C++
> requirement slip in a while back and found that almost everyone has
> such a compiler. Windows (VC++) users: see the README-WIN32 for new
> compilation instructions.

Am I the only person who hates C++ and is sad to see the poC (plain ole
C) version of nmap die? It seems odd to me that a project that had
conniptions on bringing in external libraries (libnet, libxml/libsax)
due to portability and bloat issues would go down the C++ route...

  -- William

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