Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Proposing some ethereal projects ...
One thing I have wanted to work on for a year now, but didn't due to
lack of time, was a good architecture for TCP-based stream
protocols. Basically I want the ability to reconstruct a TCP stream,
kinda like Follow TCP, but then run a packet processor on that to
parse the stream into packets. My original interest was the COPS
protocol.
-Ashok
> Hi,
>
> having had a look at Ethereal in trying to document it, and that is not
> complete as yet ... but, I feel that we should perhaps set up some formal
> projects to tackle areas of Ethereal that are perhaps not quite done.
>
> These projects would have members, and would discuss what is to be done
> about various parts of Ethereal, report back, and then implement the
> proposed changes.
>
> I suggest the following projects might be a good start:
>
> 1. GUI cleanup. This project would attempt to make those elements of the
> GUI that are hard to use, or non-intuitive, easier and more intuitive to
> use, if that is possible.
>
> 2. Cleanup of Error messages and error message handling. This project would
> centralize all error messages in one file perhaps, allocate message IDs to
> them, and generally look at the issues of internationalization. This would
> probably include all test strings that are used.
>
> 3. Future versions of Ethereal?
>
> 4. Other projects?
>
> 5. Documentation?
>
> Any thoughts? Is this too hard? Not needed? What?
>
>
> Regards
> -------
> Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx
> Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
> Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
> Author, Special Edition, Using Samba
>
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