zeek/scripts/base/frameworks/software
Benjamin Bannier d5fd29edcd Prefer explicit construction to coercion in record initialization
While we support initializing records via coercion from an expression
list, e.g.,

    local x: X = [$x1=1, $x2=2];

this can sometimes obscure the code to readers, e.g., when assigning to
value declared and typed elsewhere. The language runtime has a similar
overhead since instead of just constructing a known type it needs to
check at runtime that the coercion from the expression list is valid;
this can be slower than just writing the readible code in the first
place, see #4559.

With this patch we use explicit construction, e.g.,

    local x = X($x1=1, $x2=2);
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README Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/topic/dnthayer/doc-changes-for-2.2' 2013-10-18 13:49:49 -07:00

The software framework provides infrastructure for maintaining a table
of software versions seen on the network. The version parsing itself
is carried out by external protocol-specific scripts that feed into
this framework.