George Theall <theallat_private> writes: > Are there guidelines for writing plugins? Not really. But you may find some usefule information in the NASL2 reference manual. IIRC, the old manual gave more recipee (Renaud, did you take it off?) > o How do I pick a script ID? Get the last available number or ask Renaud. For your experimental plugin, it is safer to use a high number, so that it does not clash with newly added plugins if you run ccvs update. > o Do I simply post the plugin here to have it reviewed / included on > nessus.org? Yes > o Any coding standards to follow? I notice others seem to keep=20 > comments and variable names to a minimum. Is there any particular > reason for this? No. Comments are striped by the lexical analyzer. Short variable and functions names may speed up the lookup slightly (it computes hashes and then uses strcmp), but I am not sure that the difference can even be measured. So feel free to use long variables.
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