Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] idl2wrs cannot be disabled in Wireshark 1.8.

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Petr Sumbera wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see that configure option '--disable-idl2wrs' no longer works for 1.8 
> version. I would like ask what is behind this change? And without 
> knowing exactly what this script does I see that wireshark_be.py and 
> wireshark_gen.py are not installed at the same time... So I'm confused.

Looks like this came in this revision:

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=39985&view=revision

The commit log doesn't list a reason, but I suppose it might be for 
simplicity (really, why have an option?).

But, I'm not entirely sure it makes sense to install the script at all: 
its purpose is to generate dissectors which is a development task (for 
which you need the source code) not something someone would be doing on 
an installed system.

Balint?