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cve-search - a tool to perform local searches for known vulnerabilities
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Should search_irc & search_xmpp be fixed or removed? #787

Closed oh2fih closed 3 years ago

oh2fih commented 3 years ago

I was curious about the sleekxmpp==1.3.3 that has caused web_tests to fail for some time. Turned out SleekXMPP has not been developed since Sep 2017 and has been deprecated and replaced by Slixmpp in Feb 2020. Therefore, I looked at where it is used – to find out that both search_irc.py & search_xmpp.py has not been working since "Christmas cleaning" a3740ef removed the old API they try to utilize.

Should these features be fixed by upgrading them to use the current API & more recent Python modules, or should both be abandoned altogether, allowing reducing dependencies? My reasoning is that removing those features would be in line with the current CveSearch / CveXplore split up / migration project. Then, if needed, someone could build independent IRC & XMPP bots that directly utilize the libraries provided by CveXplore.

P-T-I commented 3 years ago

I would say that this could be removed...

oh2fih commented 3 years ago

I can take action on removing IRC & XMPP support including

Feel free to assign this to me.