Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 24123: /trunk/ /trunk/: Makefile.am

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Jeff Morriss schrieb:
> Ulf Lamping wrote:
>   
> > morriss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb:
> >     
> > > http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=24123
> > >
> > > User: morriss
> > > Date: 2008/01/17 07:44 PM
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >  Now that we have wiretap plugins, capinfos and editcap need to be linked against libwireshark (because the non-wiretap plugins use it but also init_progfile_dir() is in epan and they use that to load the plugins)
> > >   
> > >       
> > I'm not sure if I understand this completely.
> >
> > Does this mean that every program that want to use wiretap needs to link 
> > against libwireshark?
> >     
>
> Hmmm, yes.
>
> Now that you say it that way it sounds worse than I was thinking it was.
>   
Hmmm, yes, doesn't sound like a very clever direction we're heading here 
IMHO - might up ending with a big monolitic Wireshark ...

In my personal comparison of wiretap plugins vs. small dedicated apps 
wiretap plugins would surely loose ;-)

No way to seperate this?

Regards, ULFL