Baconator 0.1 Beta 2 (try me)

I have completed the 0.1 Beta 2 of Baconator and believe it to be fairly stable and user friendly! Please give it a roll (it's not in a tarball yet, so you will have to check it out as noted below) and let me know if you experience any issues or have any updates / features that you would like to see.

The timeline:
Release 0.1:(This is complete)

• First Beta Release
• Downloads latest rules file
• Verifies MD5 of local rules file
• If MD5 has not changed from snort.org.. doesn't fetch files again
• handle both rules and so_rules
• Capability to generate stub files

Release 0.2:(I have started to work on this piece, probably finished in a few more weeks)

• Rule modification, i.e. disabling of specific rules within rule sets
• Capability to compile so_rules from source
• Outputs changes in rules files if any rules have been added / modified
• Compares new rules files with current rule sets
• Option to use Emerging-Threats rules in addition to snort.org rules
• Option to define custom URL to fetch rules tarballs from
• Automated retrieval of certain variables (Distro, Snort Version.. etc)

Next Release...

• TBD by community needs / requests

Visit the google code site for info on how to check out the code etc..

http://code.google.com/p/baconator/

Cheers,
JJC